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House Passes CR With DoD Bill As Senate Crafts Alternative

Julie Samuel

Thursday, March 7th, 2013

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The House passed a long-delayed defense budget bill yesterday that is intended to help the Pentagon manage the new “sequestration” cuts, sending the legislation to the Senate for scrutiny by skeptical Democrats. The budget measure--a FY ’13 continuing resolution (CR) funding most of the government at FY ’12 levels that includes full defense and military-construction appropriations bills--cleared the Republican-led House with a 267-151 vote. The legislation would keep the $46 billion in defense sequestration cuts in place from March 1…

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