mr. sanford, is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the one thing we develop over time is the humility to be careful with our words.y i was struck by what you said to ago the chairman a few minutes ago. and that was -- he'd asked you about mindless austerity, mindless sequestration cuts, ndless which was both in your written testimony and your spoken testimony. do you really mindean mindless or was that a misspeak? >> what i mean by that is we sspea should look to make smart cuts hould in programs that aren't working. >> it doesn't say smart. it says mindless. >> the implication of mindless >> is that it t applies a kind of across the board one size fits all approach to cutting spending as opposed to what i think we're trying to do in our budget, which is to be much mortar getted. >> fair enough. but i guess the point the chairman was getting at is given that bob woodward wrote about it and he says it was the brain child of jack lew in the white house. was the president not smart in offering that proposal ? >> i think the history was i

mr. sanford's comments. in your second paragraph you talk about mindless austerity. i think we need to be careful with our rhetoric. that mindless austerity has go back to the first paragraph and you say that the budget comes on the heels of a breakthrough year for america. today america's a soupenergy super power. if this mindless austerity has caused this i think we need the go back and re-examine. even though the president's sequester is not what everybody wanted, but the president should have been careful in asking for it because even though he may not expected it to happen it happened. that's the only reason why we're seeing deficits being reduced. it's not because of an act of congress. it's because of inaction of congress in the white house working together. i would like to display a chart on the screen if possible another quote that was actually said not too long ago says that our national debt is our biggest national security threat. former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen made this statement. looking at the net interests spending co

mr. sanford, is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the one thing we develop over time is the humility to be careful with our words.y i was struck by what you said to ago the chairman a few minutes ago.

mr. sanford, for his commonsense bill. the senate did not take action on it. let's send this bill back to the senate and onto the president for his signature. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on h.r. 719 and i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from new york. ms. rice: i rise in strong support of h.r. 719. and yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. rice: as ranking member of the subcommittee on transportation, security, i have a responsibility to ensure that the transportation security administration operates effectively and efficiently. part of this responsibility includes working to ensure that not a single taxpayer dollar is wasted so that resources are properly expended to protect our nation's airports and the traveling public. regrettably we have learned from the department of homeland security that the t.s.a.'s office of inspection is not operating efficiently. taxpayer dollars have been wasted in a manner that

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mr. sanford's comments, you know in your second paragraph, you talk about mindless austerity. which i agree with him i think we need to be very careful with our rhetoric. but apparently that mindless austerity has, go back to the first paragraph, and you say that the budget comes on the heels of a breakthrough year for america. that today america's a super energy -- or energy superpower. our manufacturing sector continues to experience its strongest period of job growth sinces late 1990s. i mean if this mindless austerity has caused this, i think we need to go back and re-examine. even though the sequester, the president's sequester is not what everybody wanted but the president should have been careful in asking for it, because even though he may not have expected it to happen, it happened. that's the only reason why we're seeing deficits being reduced. it's not because of an act of congress. it's because of inaction of congress in the white house working together. i would like to display a chart on the screen if possible another quote that was actually said not too long ago