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    Defense Plans for Sequestration

    September 24, 2012

    On September 20th, The House Armed Services Committee held a hearing titled “Department of Defense Plans for Sequestration: The Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012 [PL 112-155] Report and the Way Forward.” Officials testified about automatic budget cuts scheduled for January 2013, known as sequestration. the focus of the [...]

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    Congress does little as budget-cut threats to jobs, defense loom

    September 23, 2012

    Kevin Miller

    Morning Sentinel

    WASHINGTON — They’ve been called devastating, disastrous and, most recently, labeled by the White House as “bad policy” that was never intended to be implemented.

    But with the political world focused on the upcoming elections, little is being done in Washington, D.C., to avert the first [...]

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    Potential cutbacks put defense jobs under the gun

    September 22, 2012

    By Kevin Miller

    The Portland Press Herald

    WASHINGTON – They’ve been called devastating, disastrous and, most recently, labeled by the White House as “bad policy” that was never intended to be implemented.

    POSSIBLE PAIN IN MAINE FROM FEDERAL CUTS

    $2.1  BILLION REDUCTION: Navy shipbuilding and conversion projects

    $285 MILLION REDUCTION: [...]

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    Contractors on the brink

    September 21, 2012

    Patrick Peterson

    Florida Today

    Scott Lewit built a better boat with the help of the federal government.

    The U.S. Navy spent $1 million to help him design and build the prototype of a utility boat that is 40 percent lighter, more fuel-efficient and less likely to injure its crew when [...]

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    Sacramento companies at risk from defense cuts

    September 21, 2012

    Sacramento Business Journal

    More than 400 Sacramento-area companies with over $3.5 billion in defense contracts could lose an average of 9.4 percent of that business next year under automatic budget cuts that will take effect if Congress doesn’t reach a new deficit-reduction deal.

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    Flawed Sequestration Report Reinforces Need to Reverse Damaging Defense Cuts

    September 20, 2012

    Steven Bucci and Owen Graham

    The Heritage Foundation

    The Obama Administration’s recent report on how it would slash nearly $500 billion more from national defense over the next decade leaves lawmakers, the military, the defense industry, and the American public largely in the dark about the consequences of these massive [...]

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    THE DIRE EFFECTS OF SEQUESTRATION

    September 19, 2012
    The Dire Effects of Sequestration and a Middle East in Chaos: Implications for Congress

    Featuring

    Peter Brookes

    Senior Fellow, National Security Affairs and Chung Ju-Yung Fellow for Policy Studies,

    The Heritage Foundation

    Robert Zarate

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    Arizona defense industry looks warily toward ‘fiscal cliff’ of year-end cuts

    September 19, 2012

    Sarah Pringle

    Arizona News Zap

    It’s a typical day along Boeing Co.‘s production line turning out Apache AH-64D helicopters, new and remanufactured.

    Kelley Miles hammers rivets above the cockpit of a stripped-down helicopter getting a refit. Ronald Young builds the pylons that hold missiles and rockets. Pat Chi puts together [...]

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    Don’t Play Politics with the Nation’s Security

    September 19, 2012

    Steven Bucci

    The Heritage Foundation

    The political grandstanding around sequestration is shameful. As Bob Woodward described in his book The Price of Politics, the present crisis was not the product of ineptitude or misplaced priorities (who would have thought those would be considered lesser evils?). It has been caused [...]

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    Region could lose billions if Congress fails to act

    September 19, 2012
    By: Keith Walker InsideNova Chris Perkins, who is running to unseat Democratic Rep. Gerald E. “Gerry” Connolly in the 11th Congressional District, said that Northern Virginia is on the verge of losing billions of dollars in defense spending.
    The cuts would come under sequestration, a mechanism to force automatic, [...]
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