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Dems Vent As Sequestration Start Nears

Julie Samuel

Friday, February 22nd, 2013

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Democrats frustrated about the across-the-board “sequestration” cuts set to start a week from today sought yesterday to blame Republicans for not taking up left-leaning proposals to thwart the reductions. Republicans such as House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) have decried the decade-long cuts, of $1.2 trillion to defense and non-defense spending, but balk at Democrats’ insistence that an alternative deficit-cutting package include revenue-generating tax reforms. “We have asked repeatedly for a vote on an alternative,” House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris…

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