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Senators Examine Ways To Stop, Tweak Sequestration

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

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Senators are examining ways to stop or at least modify the across-the-board “sequestration” cuts to the Pentagon that are slated to start in just over a month. The $1.2 trillion in decade-long cuts, $500 billion of which would come from planned defense spending, are opposed by the White House and were once widely reviled in Congress. Yet an increasing number of lawmakers--including House Budget Committee Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)--predict they will start on…

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