s by 6.4%. cuts to m.r.a. means cuts to members' day-to-day abilities to effectively represent our and their constituents from the staff assistant answering calls from our constituents to the caseworkers, helping grandma recover her lost social security check. all of these services are funded through m.r.a. each office would lose on the average of $88,000, which would mean, it two to three staffers per office. in what world does laying people off recover economy? the cut and grow mantra does not work in the economy as a whole. it is certainly -- it certainly will not work in the corridors of congress. i hope the members of this body understand that agencies we rely on will have to deny or limit services provided to members' office because there are fewer people to handle requests. i would say to my colleagues, remember these cuts the next time you have requests of g.a.o. the architect of the capitol, congressional research service, and congressional budget office. beyond that, after the tragic shooting of our friend and colleague gabby giffords in two sop, we were told to increase security in our district office,, but how are we supposed to pay for all of it? certainly not out of our office budgets th