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    Rep. McKeon tells debt panel: Don’t bet that Pentagon cuts can be voided

    November 21, 2011
    By John T. Bennett – 11/18/11 02:51 PM ET http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/budget-approriations/194525-rep-mckeon-tells-debt-panel-dont-bet-that-pentagon-cuts-can-be-voided

    A senior House Republican urged the debt-reduction panel to strike a deal Friday, warning its members to resist the notion that Congress simply can void the deep Pentagon cuts a failure would trigger.

    House Armed Services Committee Chairman [...]

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    Lt. Gen. Boykin: Not the time to make cuts in military budget

    November 21, 2011

    http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_19374191

    Monday, November 21, 2011

    It’s not just “Pentagon bureaucrats” warning that more cuts to defense will devastate our military. Experts left, right and center have been sounding the alarm for months.

    Top Republicans and Democrats on the Congressional Armed Services committees warn that these cuts would [...]

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    Defense Industry Prepares to Defend Itself

    November 19, 2011

    By: Eliza Newlin Carney
    Roll Call

    As the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction nears its final deadline, K Street’s influential defense lobby appears to have everything to lose.

    On the surface, the options facing the multibillion-dollar industry are all bad. If the super committee manages to reach its Nov. [...]

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    Transcript of Tele-Town Hall with Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich

    November 17, 2011

    Yesterday, Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., President of the Center for Security Policy, joined Veterans for a Strong America as the moderator for their tele-town hall with Presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.  Both groups are founders of the Coalition [...]

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    Panetta details ‘devastating’ impact of defense cuts … SASC looks at Iraq withdrawal plans … Afghan tribal leaders gather amid attack fears … USSOCOM calls new bin Laden book ‘a lie’

    November 15, 2011

    Morning Defense

    POLITICO

    By CHARLES HOSKINSON | 11/15/11 5:53 AM EDT

    KICKING THE LOBBYING UP A NOTCH – In a letter Monday to Sens. McCain and Graham, Panetta detailed what would happen if the debt-reduction supercommittee failed to do its job, triggering deep defense cuts. Here are some highlights:

    — [...]

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    POLITICO’s Morning Defense: Poll: Voters don’t want more defense cuts, think supercommittee will fail … Obama defends Iran policy against GOP attacks … DOD seeking new Dover probe leader… SASC to look at Iraq on Tuesday

    November 14, 2011

    By Charles Hoskinson

    VOTERS AREN’T OPTIMISTIC THAT the debt-reduction supercommittee will beat the clock and find a path to $1.5 trillion in savings by Nov. 23 — 69 percent of respondents in a POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll released today believe the panel will fail, even though only about [...]

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    Defense cuts loom over our nation and Missouri

    November 9, 2011

    By Todd Akin, special to the St. Louis Beacon
    Posted 7:00 am Wed., 11.9.11

    This summer, after much hemming and hawing, Congress passed and the President signed into law the Budget Control Act, which gave the President $2.4 trillion in additional borrowing power. I voted against this bill because [...]

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    Officials Outline Pentagon’s Support to Industrial Base

    November 4, 2011

    “For decades, the U.S. has commanded a decisive lead in the quality of the defense-related research and engineering conducted globally, and in the military capabilities and products that flow from this work,”…That advantage is not a birthright, Lambert told the panel.

    Officials Outline Pentagon’s Support to Industrial Base [...]

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    McKeon: Provide for the Common Defense

    November 4, 2011

    The New York Times

    November 2, 2011
    Cutting the Defense Budget

    To the Editor:

    In “Bombs, Bridges and Jobs” (column, Oct. 31), Paul Krugman uses the ramifications of deep defense cuts to paint me as a Keynesian.

    To be clear, as a fiscal conservative I have never supported policies [...]

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    The Dangerous Debate Over Cutting Military Spending

    November 1, 2011

    By Robert J. Samuelson

    Published:  October 30

    We shouldn’t gut defense. A central question of our budget debates is how much we allow growing spending on social programs to crowd out the military and, in effect, force the United States into a dangerous, slow-motion disarmament.People who see military [...]
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