Sequestration Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Sequester.
Senate finally ends budget stalemate
Ending almost eight days of limited debate on a bill that funds federal government operations through the end of the fiscal year, the Senate on Wednesday approved a nearly $1 trillion budget bill for Uncle Sam, even as the Congress started work on next year's budget outline. With House approval ...
No end to debate on sequester impact
It has now been two weeks since automatic budget cuts kicked in, and Political Washington is still waiting to see whether there will be a dramatic impact as forecast by Democrats, or if ominous predictions made by the Obama Administration - and ridiculed by many Republicans - won't exactly come ...
Senate Democrats detail budget outline
In a clear contrast with a House Republican budget plan, Democrats in the Senate set out their own ideas on how best to run the government, proposing $975 billion in tax increases over the next ten years in a spending blueprint that held no hint of a balanced budget. And ...
Digging into the GOP budget outline
The budget plan unveiled by House Republicans on Tuesday would balance the budget in ten years, but it also would allow for the budget to keep growing after two initial years of spending reductions in the discretionary budget. "We believe we owe the American people a balanced budget," Ryan said ...
Obama charm offensive hits Capitol Hill
In the press galleries on Capitol Hill over the years, we have seen a lot of trips to the U.S. Capitol by Presidents of both parties, but none of my colleagues can remember a series of visits like we will have over the next three days by President Obama. "He’s ...
A confusing budget week in Washington
If you pay close attention this week to news about the budget in Congress, it will be okay if you mix yourself a stiff drink by Wednesday or so to deal with what might seem like a series of confusing series of budget plans from the House and Senate. First, ...
Congress moves to keep Saturday mail delivery
I have often written about how difficult it can be to decipher what Congress does in legislation, and that was demonstrated yet again this week in the post-sequester-government budget bill that was approved by the House. What was in that bill? Maybe the question should also be, what wasn't in ...
The sequester comes to Capitol Hill
While the White House stuck by its decision to scrap public tours because of automatic budget cuts, those who work in Congress will see a different decision on cuts, as House and Senate officials announced a series of security changes because of spending reductions. In a letter sent to lawmakers ...
Looking for sequester answers and details
As I spent the weekend digging through the 83 page sequester report issued on Friday night by the White House, it was obvious that many readers and listeners had a lot of questions about how $85 billion in budget cuts were being administered. And it was obvious from comments to ...
Portman once had high hopes for deal
With all the finger-pointing and name-calling over the so-called sequester, it’s easy to forget there were once high hopes for a negotiated deal on a deficit reduction plan. And no one back then was more optimistic than Sen. Rob Portman. Portman, R-Ohio, was one of 12 members of the Joint ...
The sequester cuts become real
With the stroke of a pen, President Obama set in motion on Friday night $85 billion in automatic, across the board budget cuts in this year's budget, cuts that the President himself labeled "dumb" at an impromptu news conference in the White House Briefing Room. "And let’s be clear. None ...
Wright-Patt waiting on Pentagon for more details on cuts
Wright-Patterson leaders and employees anxiously awaited the impact of sequestration as a Friday countdown to the automatic spending cuts loomed. Many questions remain unanswered and won’t be known until the base receives instructions from the Department of Defense and the Air Force, according to Col. Cassie B. Barlow, commander of ...
White House meeting produces no sequester deal
As expected, there was no magic solution unveiled after a meeting Friday morning at the White House between Congressional leaders and the President, as both sides seem headed for a lengthy battle over how to deal with $85 billion in automatic budget cuts. "I told them these cuts will ...
Waiting for the budget cuts to hit Capitol Hill
There are some terms bouncing around the halls of Congress right now that aren't too familiar to those who work in the House and Senate; words like layoffs, buyouts and furloughs as the Legislative Branch prepares to deal with their share of $85 billion in across the board automatic budget ...
White House quarrels with press on sequester
Reporters in recent days have been taking a much more skeptical view of White House claims related to how automatic budget cuts will impact Americans in coming weeks, as reporters on Wednesday again tangled at a briefing with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney over the central issue of whether ...
White House tells Woodward he'll 'regret' criticism
Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward says a senior official from the White House told him he will “regret” a claim he made in an op-ed piece. Last week, Woodward wrote that President Obama is “moving the goal posts” by demanding a package of tax revenues and spending cuts to ...
More wrangling over sequester, but no deal
After a closed door meeting with GOP leaders on Wednesday, rank and file Republicans in the House signaled their approval of plans to push ahead next week with a bill to fund the operations of the government, a plan which would also maintain the $85 billion in budget cuts in ...
Slower payments from Pentagon have defense contractors on edge
Many defense contractors will wait longer to receive payments because of a Pentagon decision to suspend a “quick pay” or “accelerated payment” program to save money with automatic federal spending cuts set to start Friday. With $46 billion in anticipated cuts and hundreds of thousands of upcoming civilian employee furloughs ...
Senate Democrats roll out sequester bill
Senate Democrats have unveiled a bill dealing with pending automatic budget cuts which would ward off some of the cuts by focusing spending reductions on farm and defense programs, and also includes tax increases on wealthy Americans and the oil and gas industry. "It would replace half of the first ...
Military warns of dire impacts
The billions of dollars in defense budget cuts scheduled to begin at the end of the week will have a swift and severe impact on military readiness and Congress needs to take fast action to stop them, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday in an 11th hour ...
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