Rep. Perlmutter criticizes House measure that would eliminate 800K federal jobs

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“My number one priority is to get people back to work because that’s the best thing we can do to pay our debt and move forward toward economic stability. While most of America was sleeping, John Boehner and the Republicans said “so be it” and essentially gave 800,000 people pink slips in the middle of the night. They said they wanted to cut – but what they really did was gut. Their plan guts a woman’s right to choose, takes cops off the beat and off Wall Street. Saturday morning, the hardworking people in Colorado woke up to a scenario where good-paying, stable, private-sector jobs in our state will be wiped out for so many engineers, scientists, teachers and construction workers. This is irresponsible, and does nothing to build jobs.

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“I am serious about paying down our deficit, and that’s why I voted to make additional cuts in wasteful and fraudulent spending. But to move our country forward toward long-term economic stability, security and sustained job growth here in our country, we have to both cut our spending and reduce our debt, as well as make critical, necessary investments in education for our children and rebuild our aging transportation and energy infrastructure.”