Himes opposes Republican attempt to shield Pentagon from massive cuts
U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-4, blasted a Republican effort to shield the Defense Department from about $500 billion in automatic cuts that will begin to be phased in next year. Congress and the President...
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Sequestration: ‘It will not happen’
In the debate last night, President Obama said point blank the $500 billion in defense cuts and apparently an equal President Obama during Oct. 22 debate. Getty Images amount of cuts to other federal...
View ArticleJoint Chiefs call on Congress to call off sequestration
The Joint Chiefs for Staff for the U.S. Military have sent a letter to Congress warning that if they do not stop sequestration, the United States will be left with a hollow force. The letter, reported...
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Black Hawk provides Sikorsky cover against sequestration
AP file photo of UTC CEO and Chairman Louis Chenevert With concerns over sequestration hanging over his Sikorsky Aircraft, Pratt & Whitney and UTC Aerospace systems subsidiaries, Louis Chenevert,...
View ArticleU.S. Army Chief of Staff plans to push out Black Hawk deliveries
Defense News is reporting today that U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno has signed a plan to deal with sequestration that would include extending the Black Hawk fleet modernization program by...
View ArticleSequestration is happening
So much for promises. In an October debate with Mitt Romney, President Obama said emphatically, sequestration “Will not happen.” Well, now it has and Connecticut’s Office of Fiscal Analysis says the...
View ArticleSequestration could take $960 million from the state
Connecticut has updated the impact from sequestration cuts that pegs total lost revenues to the state at more than $960 million. The Office of Fiscal Analysis, after a review of the the spending cuts,...
View ArticleUnemployed will take a 19.2 percent paycut
Unemployment checks for some Connecticut residents will be a little lighter come June, when sequestration takes a bite out of emergency benefits. The State Labor Department said emergency unemployment...
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