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    Local Mayors Speak Out Against Sequestration

    July 17, 2012

    House Armed Services Committee

    Washington – Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton (D-AZ) urged Congress and the President to come together to head off the pending defense cuts under sequestration. Republicans in the House and Senate are the only members in each chamber putting forward legislation to solve the damaging cuts from [...]

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    Rep. Denny Rehberg: What automatic defense cuts mean for Great Falls

    July 15, 2012

    Denny Rehberg

    Great Falls Tribune

    Great Falls, like a lot of defense communities around the country, faces an uncertain future. President Obama has called for two new rounds of base closures. The ICBM mission at Malmstrom is threatened by New START reductions, which may just be the beginning of our [...]

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    Coalition Warns of Military Cuts

    July 14, 2012

    Mary Young

    Reading Eagle

    If you haven’t already seen a television ad about military funding cuts, you probably will soon.

    The Coalition for the Common Defense is hoping you’ll tell Congress you don’t want the cuts.

    First, a waving flag and a few words about the Budget Control Act of [...]

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    Coalition Ad Campaign Warns White House and Senate: “No More Defense Cuts”

    July 11, 2012

    Washington, D.C. July 12, 2012:  Today, the Coalition for the Common Defense launched a national advocacy campaign aimed at preventing further, draconian cuts to the U.S. military of $500 billion dollars or more in January 2013 pursuant to the “sequestration” mechanism created under the Budget Control Act of 2011. The [...]

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    Nevada faces devastating defense cuts, Heck warns

    July 7, 2012

    Keith Rogers

    Las Vegas Review-Journal

    The impact on Nevada’s economy and employment will be staggering if Congress and President Barack Obama can’t agree on a deficit reduction plan by January.

    Failure to reach a pact to avoid across-the-board cuts, or sequestration, would trigger funding cuts split equally between national security [...]

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    Sequester Layoffs Could Sway Elections in Battleground States

    July 5, 2012

    Hope Hodge

    Human Events

    Whether or not Congress is able to act in time to divert a $500 billion tranche of defense budget cuts set to take effect in January, the looming threat of the sequestration “meat axe” may well sway the electorate in some of the most hotly contested [...]

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    Statement of Associations for America’s Defense Before the Defense Subcommittee of The Senate Appropriations Committee

    July 5, 2012

    Captain Marshall Hanson, USNR (Ret.)

     

    INTRODUCTION
    Mister Chairman and distinguished members of the committee, the Associations for America’s Defense is again very grateful for the invitation to testify before you about our views and suggestions concerning current and future issues facing the defense appropriations.

    A4AD is [...]

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    Statement of Major General Andrew Davis, USMC (Ret) Executive Director Reserve Officers Association of the United States on behalf of Reserve Officers Association of the United States and Reserve Enlisted Association

    July 5, 2012

    Major General Andrew Davis, USMC (Ret)

    On behalf of the 1.1 million members of the Reserve and National Guard, the Reserve Officers Association and the Reserve Enlisted Association thank the committee for the opportunity to submit testimony on budgeting issues affecting serving members, retirees, their families, and survivors.

    The associations [...]

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    HASC Republicans Demand Senate Action on Sequestration In Letter to Senator Reid

    June 29, 2012

    Washington – House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. “Buck” McKeon and House Armed Services Committee Republicans sent a letter Friday to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid calling on him to  bring a plan to the Senate floor immediately to resolve sequestration.
    According to the Letter:

    “The time for rhetoric has [...]

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    Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) discusses avoiding defense sequestration at the Brookings Institution

    June 27, 2012

    Recently, at a Brookings Institution event Senator Kelly Ayotte mentioned the Defense Breakdown State Economic Impact reports.

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