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Defense Watch

Monday, August 5th, 2013

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Flexible Sequester. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) teams up with HASC Democrat Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) on Aug. 1 to introduce a bill to give the Pentagon more flexibility in applying sequestration budget reductions. Cooper says the cuts would be akin to putting the Pentagon in “a straitjacket while dieting,” because the Budget Control Act calls for the cuts to be applied evenly across non-exempt parts of the Pentagon budget. “We should replace these arbitrary cuts with better reforms,”…

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