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    Obama faces decisions vital to Michigan’s future

    November 9, 2012

    By: David Shepardson and Kim Kozlowski

    The Detroit News

    President Barack Obama faces a full second-term agenda that will be critical  to Michigan — fighting Asian carp in the Great Lakes, boosting struggling  electric vehicles and staving off defense cuts that could cost thousands of  jobs.

    The biggest issue in [...]

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    Sequestration, defens budget cuts dominate requirements symposium

    November 8, 2012

    By: Gene Rector

    The Warner Robins Patriot

    Sequestration and defense budget cuts were the elephants in the room Wednesday  morning as the tenth annual Robins Air Force Base Requirements Symposium kicked  off at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter in Perry.
    Some 900  registrants are attending the two-day [...]

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    U.S. defense shares drop sharply after Obama victory

    November 7, 2012

    By Andrea Shalal-Esa

    NBC News

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. weapons makers took a pounding in the stock market Wednesday as investors priced in leaner times after President Barack Obama’s re-election.

    Analysts had predicted gains for defense industry shares if Republican Mitt Romney had won the White House. He had pledged [...]

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    Top St. Louis area defense contractors

    November 6, 2012

    By: Matthew Hibbard

    St. Louis Business Journal

    An automatic $1.2 trillion in federal budget cuts, through sequestration, is expected to hit the defense industry the hardest, with cuts affecting companies close to home.

    In Missouri, sequestration could cost defense contractors more than $1.63 billion annually, according to a report by [...]

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    Capps and Sequestration

    November 6, 2012

    By: Stephen B. Lanning

    Santa Barbara Independent

    There’s an old adage that you’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.

    No one takes responsibility for anything in Washington.  It’s always someone else’s fault.  It’s always on someone else’s watch.  All the while, politicians continue to ask us [...]

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    Navy, contractors have much to lose if automatic cuts kick in

    November 4, 2012

    By: Ed Friedrich

    Kitsap Sun

    BREMERTON —The Navy stands to lose $12 billion  next year in across-the-board cuts if Congress can’t agree to a  deficit-reduction plan by the end of the year.

    Adm. Mark Ferguson, vice chief of naval operations, wrote Sept. 23 that the  reductions, through a mechanism called [...]

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    The fiscal cliff’s threat to national security

    November 1, 2012

    By: Mackenzie Eaglen

    American Enterprise Institute

    Both candidates for president of the United States are clearly mindful of the potential for a razor-close election next week. Mitt Romney has been talking more about his bipartisan credentials as governor of Massachusetts while President Barack Obama, out of the blue, said the [...]

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    Military sequestration: Barstow schools, economy face hit from looming defense cuts

    October 24, 2012

    Kate Vinton

    The Desert Dispatch

    BARSTOW • Silver Valley Unified School District could lose a projected $1 million in aid from the federal government should automatic spending cuts occur in January — just one example of how sequestration could impact the Barstow area.

    Some 61 percent of the district’s students [...]

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    Michigan defense firms brace for job cuts

    October 24, 2012

    Karen Dybis

    The Detroit News

    Defense-industry companies across Metro Detroit are worrying about losing  thousands of jobs unless Congress and President Barack Obama reach a deal before  year’s end to prevent defense cuts.

    If Congress does not act, the Defense Department faces an automatic $50  billion to $63 billion cut [...]

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    Businesses fear defense cutbacks

    October 22, 2012

    By: Keith Rogers

    Las Vegas Review-Journal

    From a company that supplies milk and ice cream at Nellis Air Force Base to a contractor that builds drone facilities at Creech Air Force Base, more than 500 Nevada firms doing business with the Pentagon have a lot to lose if budget cutbacks [...]

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