NEW : `` Just to sit here by myself serves no purpose , '' says GOP congressman leaving the House of Representatives. Cuts to initiatives to support children and families , like WIC ( the Women , Infants , and Children program ) and Head Start , cuts to public sector jobs , where women are 50 % more likely than men to be employed , and therefore fired . '' Senate rejects competing Democratic and Republican alternatives to the current cuts . Republicans , Democrats blame each other for $ 85 billion in widely disliked spending cuts .
NEW : `` Just to sit here by myself serves no purpose , '' says GOP congressman leaving the House of Representatives. Senate rejects competing Democratic and Republican alternatives to the current cuts . Republicans , Democrats blame each other for $ 85 billion in widely disliked spending cuts .