The chairman of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee yesterday challenged the defense industrial base to target Congress with a grassroots campaign to save itself from sequestration. Durbin brought seven witnesses before the subcommittee, representing industry associations, small businesses and even an Illinois town with a heavy concentration of aerospace contractors. At the conclusion of the hearing, he told them there is exactly one month until the budget conference committee hopes to have a solution to bring to the House and…
Durbin to Defense Industry: Expand Lobbying Effort Against Sequester This Month
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