LaHood Tries to ‘Wake Up’ GOP on Sequester
LaHood said a majority of the FAA’s 47,000 employees, including air traffic controllers, would face furloughs of one day a week and, in some cases, two days a week, to close a $1 billion hole sequester
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Rules of the Game: Sequester Spells Bitter K Street Failure
automatic cuts were deliberately designed by Congress in 2011 as an unpalatable fallback option that would kick in only if lawmakers failed to craft a budget deal that would cut domestic spending by about $1
Does Boehner Even Have the Votes to Replace the Sequester?
But the House has not yet approved any legislation in the new Congress to avert the more than $1 trillion in across-the-board spending cuts that will begin Friday.
Kondracke: Early Education Gives a Return on Investment
cognitive abilities of poor children in Tulsa’s Head Start and state preschool programs were on par with the most-effective programs in the country that may return as much as $10 in social savings per $1
Twitter Fight: @PressSec Vs. @Brendan_Buck
(Carney’s followers outnumbers Buck’s followers by more than than 40 to 1).
Blunt Urges Discretion in Applying Sequester Cuts
Louis radio program that President Barack Obama should embrace the idea of more discretion in implementing the spending cuts required to take effect March 1 under current law.
Hulsman: What the Patriot Missile Deployment to Turkey Tells Us About Future Weapons Procurement in an Age of Austerity
Lesson 1: Invest in systems with a real-world pedigree.
Hashing Things Out
Tell the Rapist you listened to Democrat Joe Salazar of Colorado and did not need to carry a gun to protect myself — @obamaisnuts #LiberalTips2AvoidRape rule #1- cardio — @912gauge #LiberalTips2AvoidRape
Good-Buy, Jesse Jackson Jr.
(Screenshot) I mean, it’s trumpeted as the “#1 choice of professional MJ impersonators.”
Watchdog Group Sues IRS Over Policing Nonprofits
“Campaigns should be transparent,” said Gill, who lost to Davis by less than three-tenths of 1 percent.
Biden: Buy Shotguns, Not Assault Weapons
You should be able to buy an N-1 tank. You should be able to buy a machine gun. You should be able to buy a grenade launcher. You can’t do those things,” he said.
Nolan: Time for Congress to Address Climate Change
Advanced energy accounted for more than $1 trillion in revenue worldwide in 2012.
Nebraska: Mike Johanns Won’t Seek Re-Election
Updated 1:08 p.m. | Nebraska Sen. Mike Johanns, who was a safe bet to win a second term in 2014, announced Monday that he would forgo re-election.
Voting Rights Act at Risk?
In 1966, the justices decided 8-1 that they were. A new court will decide later this term whether it still agrees. Editor’s note: This story first appeared in CQ Weekly.
House Adjourns for Recess; No More Pro Forma Session for Now
Democrats accused the majority party of leaving when there is important work on the table, including dealing with the sequester deadline of March 1 and passing the Violence Against Women Act.
On Pay Freeze, Some Changes of Heart
Voting “no” was also a statement against House Republicans, whom Democrats accuse of stonewalling legislation to avert the March 1 sequester.
House GOP to Propose Budget Balance Within a Decade Sans Medicare Cuts
With automatic sequestration cuts set to begin March 1, Price echoed a recent GOP talking point that has sought to hang sequester on the president and Senate Democrats.
Boehner Tells Reid That Senate Must Act First on Averting Sequester
Boehner met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the Capitol on Thursday morning to tell him that the Senate needs to move first on a bill to avert more than $1 trillion in indiscriminate spending
Holden: Pass the Highway Transportation Bill
The Federal Highway Administration rates the condition of 1 in 4 urban roads as poor. Nearly 8,000 bridges across the country are classified as structurally deficient.
Reid Releases $110 Billion Plan to Replace Sequester With Revenue, Spending Cuts
The blueprint would avert some $85 billion in automatic, across-the-board spending cuts that are scheduled to begin hitting federal agency budgets on March 1.