by Derek Pugh | Mar 20, 2013 | Back to Work Budget, The Sequester
Campaign for America’s Future, the AFL-CIO, and more than 60 national organizations today had one simple message for Congress: Repeal the sequester. Over 300,000 activists joined forces for a national day of action in Washington and in their local communities....
by Derek Pugh | Mar 18, 2013 | The Sequester
Conservatives are using the sequester as leverage in their latest attempt to hold our economy and government hostage. All in all, nine percent of non-defense programs and 13 percent of defense programs will be cut in a seven-month time span. Aside from the million...
by Derek Pugh | Mar 14, 2013 | The Sequester
More than 20 members of Congress responded to over 300,000 American voices calling for passage of legislation that would repeal of the federal budget sequester. The bill, H.R. 900, is direct and can be summed up in one sentence: Cancel the sequester. Passing the bill...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 13, 2013 | Back to Work Budget, The Sequester
After listening to National Economic Advisor to the President Gene Sperling this morning, I think I have a better understanding of at least one reason why we ended up in this sequestration mess, and why no one in Washington can seem to figure way out of it. The White...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 8, 2013 | Economy, The Sequester
One of the consequences of the federal spending sequester now in place is that $4 billion is being cut this year from transportation and infrastructure programs, according to House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee ranking member Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va.,...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 8, 2013 | The Sequester
It was only a matter of time. As the debate over the sequester's damaging, "just plain dumb," across-the-board cuts ramped up, I just knew someone on the right would attempt to draw the analogy between government spending and addiction. "Addiction specialist" and "Fox...
