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Business/Financial

Defense-minded Lawmakers Want Bipartisan Deal On DoD Cuts This Year

Julie Samuel

Monday, September 24th, 2012

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A group of defense-minded senators from both parties want Senate leaders to ensure lawmakers will be able to weigh any bipartisan proposals to stop so-called sequestration budget cuts before the end of the year. Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) wrote in a Sept. 21 letter that they “believe it is important to send a strong signal of our bipartisan determination to avoid or delay sequestration…

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