Roby Responds to President Obama's Sequestration Comments
By: Stephen Crews
Updated: February 6, 2013
U.S. Representative Martha Roby (R-AL) today responded to President
Obama's
comments on "sequestration," or the looming budget cuts which
disproportionately affect the military and are scheduled to go into
effect next month.
Rep.
Roby, chair of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations,
voted against the Budget Control Act that threatened the sequester
military cuts, and said rather than continue a media blame game,
President Obama and Senate Democrats should join the House in actually
trying to solve the sequester problem.
"The
House has twice passed a reasonable plan to replace the arbitrary
sequester cuts with
targeted reductions that align with the nation's priorities," Rep. Roby
said. "It doesn't have to be this complicated. If the President and
Senate Democrats disagree with our sequester replacement plan, they
should come up with their own so we can begin to
hammer out an agreement. The problem is they see every decision as an
opportunity to raise taxes, and that's unfortunate.
"Just
this morning I met with army aviation commanders who illustrated how
serious the consequences
of the sequester will be for our nation's military. The sequester is
real, and it's coming. It's past time President Obama and Senate
Democrats got serious on a plan to avoid sequester."
