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    Defense jobs already being lost to sequestration

    September 14, 2012

    Mackenzie Eaglen

    Last week, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget was required by law to report to Congress about how sequestration will be implemented. The late report may be made public today.

    In the meantime, the defense industry, which employs over one million Americans, [...]

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    New Administration Report Gives Few Details on Sequestration’s Military Cuts

    September 14, 2012

    Brian Slattery

    The White House is attempting to use the U.S. military as a bargaining chip to force Congress to raise taxes—the looming “sequestration” budget cuts were never supposed to happen, because Congress was supposed to come to a budget agreement.

    Now the military faces deep, across-the-board cuts. The President [...]

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    Lower Middle Peninsula scores nearly $10 million in defense contracts

    September 14, 2012

    Gloucester Town Square

    Here is a list of companies in Gloucester, Mathews, Middlesex and the town of West Point that secured defense contracts in 2011. The list is compiled by The Center for Security Policy, an entity that identifies itself as a non-profit, non-partisan national security organization.

    The [...]

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    Sequestration Ax Looms Over Watsonville Companies, Report Suggests

    September 14, 2012

    Watsonville Patch

    Members of Congress and business lobbyists have been sounding alarms aboutsequestration—looming Pentagon budget cuts that could exceed $500 billion over 10 years.

    They could begin in January if lawmakers don’t deal with the so-called “fiscal cliff,” including the fallout of the 2011 Budget Control Act.

    But what does [...]

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    Report shows impact of defense cuts by district

    September 13, 2012

    Ira Kantor

    Boston Herald

    The Center for Security Policy said it has posted new Massachusetts congressional district reports to help estimate the potential local economic impacts of the 10-year, $500 billion in cuts to the nation’s defense budget under sequestration.

    The reports, which are free and available online at forthecommondefense.org/districts, [...]

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    Calls for phantom defense cuts must stop

    September 13, 2012

    Mackenzie  Eaglen

    Fiscal restraint is en vogue and increasingly the cover many are using to push other agendas.  Republicans spent a week in Tampa monitoring America’s mounting national debt at their recent convention. Democrats included a call for “tough” spending cuts, especially to the military, as part of their official [...]

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    Cuts to defense spending could affect local economies

    September 13, 2012

    Whitney Burdette

    The State Journal

    A pro-military think tank has issued a report attempting to estimate the effects cuts to defense spending could have on local economies, and the outlook isn’t good.

    The Coalition for the Common Defense looked at defense contractors in each congressional district to determine how, $500 [...]

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    Sequestration Ax Looms Over 5 Lemon Grove Companies, Report Suggests

    September 13, 2012

    Ken Stone

    Lemon Grove Patch

    Members of Congress and business lobbyists have been sounding alarms about sequestration—looming Pentagon budget cuts that could exceed $500 billion over 10 years.

    They could begin in January if lawmakers don’t deal with the so-called “fiscal cliff,” including the fallout of the 2011 Budget Control Act.

    [...]
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    $191 million in South Florida defense contracts could be cut

    September 13, 2012

    Shaun Bevan

    South Florida Business Journal

    Unless Congress comes up with another plan by the end of the year, $191 million of defense contracts in South Florida will be sliced from the nation’s budget over the next 10 years.

    The 2011 Budget Control Act mandates $487 billion cut from the [...]

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    Cuts in defense, Medicare could mean fewer jobs for R.I.

    September 13, 2012

    Emily Greenhalgh

    Providence Business News

    WASHINGTON – Rhode Island could lose up to $82 million due to defense sequestration and more than 3,000 jobs due to sequestration in Medicare spending, according to reports released by the Center for Security Policy and the Hospital Association of Rhode Island, respectively.

    According to [...]

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