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Dicks: Defense Faces Bigger, $60.6 Billion Sequestration Cut

Wednesday, October 10th, 2012

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The House’s top budget writer is warning his colleagues so-called sequestration budget cuts to the defense budget could be greater than previously estimated and would imperil weapons programs. Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) and its defense subcommittee, says his staff concluded under sequestration the defense budget would be cut by $60.6 billion next year--not the $54.7 billion cited in a Sept. 14 White House report that uses a slightly different definition of defense…

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