President Obama and congressional leaders will meet Friday at the White House to discuss potential avenues for avoiding automatic across-the-board budget cuts under sequestration, ABC News reports. The top four Republican and
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The National Institutes of Health would have to cut $1.6 billion from its budget for fiscal year 2013 under the automatic sequestration cuts scheduled to take effect Friday, USA Today reports. Dan
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Automatic defense cuts under sequestration would result in an $18 billion cut to the U.S. Army‘s budget for the current fiscal year, Defense News reports. The newspaper obtained an internal Army memo
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The Defense Department is ready for additional budget cuts as Congress approaches March deadline to address sequestration and the end of the current continuing resolution, Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale Monday. GovExec reports heÂ
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With 70 days to go until the start of sequestration, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters at a Thursday Pentagon news conference Congress needs to go to work as soon as the
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Over the past year, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has addressed the potential threat of sequestration cuts on the Pentagon and how he sees the cuts preventing the country from having a strong
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The Senate voted Saturday to approve a six-month stopgap measure, extending funding for the federal government through March 27, 2013, GovExec reports. According to Kellie Lunney’s article, the measure sets fiscal year
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The House voted 329-91 Thursday to extend government funding for six months, ending March 27, Reuters reports. According to David Lawder‘s report, the Senate is expected to vote on the continuing resolution,
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The House Rules Committee voted Wednesday to approve a six-month continuing resolution extending government funding through March 27, Federal Times reports. H J Res 117 now goes before the full chamber and
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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill had to pass another stopgap funding measure before Thanksgiving, but had one measure of budget success as they passed a “minibus” bill to fund several Cabinet departments and
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