{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20140713163426/http://shea-porter.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/shea-porter-meets-with-paul-o-connor-to-discuss-continuing-effects-of", "Shea-Porter Meets with Paul O\u2019Connor to Discuss Continuing Effects of Sequestration", "2013-11-19", "2013", "2013-11", "Democrat", "House", "NH", "Carol Shea-Porter", "S001170", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nContact: Ben Wakana, 202-225-5456\n\u00a0\nWASHINGTON, DC \u2013 This afternoon, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) met with Paul O\u2019Connor, President of the Shipyard Metal Trades Council, to discuss the destructive effects of sequestration and the need for Congress to replace these reckless cuts with a responsible budget.\n\u201cOur shipyard will not survive another 9 \u00bd years of sequestration,\u201d O\u2019Connor told Shea-Porter during their meeting in her Washington D.C. office. \u201cSequestration was never intended to be a sensible budget cutting device. It was a scheme of cuts so damaging that Congress would be forced to work together to avoid them. This is a bad law and it must end.\u201d\nWorkers at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard are among the roughly 650,000 U.S. Department of Defense employees who experienced up to 11 days of unpaid furloughs between July and September, suddenly reducing their income by 20 percent for the duration of the furloughs.\n\u201cI cannot stress this enough, Congress must pass a responsible budget that creates jobs and eliminates sequestration,\u201d Shea-Porter said. \u201cThe men and women at the Shipyard are essential to our national defense and contribute $660 million to the region\u2019s economy. Continuing the cuts of sequestration is unfair to these men and women, and it is a deeply misguided approach.\u201d\u00a0\nAccording to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, sequestration will cost our economy up to 1.6 million jobs through 2014. According to a George Mason University study, the economic impact in New Hampshire is estimated to be $468 million in 2013. \u00a0\nCongresswoman Shea-Porter did not vote for sequestration and she spoke out against these indiscriminate cuts even before she was sworn into the 113th Congress. Since then, she has consistently spoken out in opposition to sequestration\u2019s reckless cuts. \u00a0\n\u00a0\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://web.archive.org/web/20140713163426/http://shea-porter.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/shea-porter-meets-with-paul-o-connor-to-discuss-continuing-effects-of"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6200020909309387, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}