Hoyer said members of Congress “fiddle while America faces a sequester burn.”
Republican Rep. Frank A. LoBiondo of New Jersey said his work on the Intelligence Committee over the past year had made an impression on him.
“The information that I continue to receive makes me more aware all the time of the great threat the United States is under and the extraordinary risks men and women are taking on behalf of all the rest of us,” he said. “We can’t be paying them enough for what they’re doing as it is.”
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