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Inhofe Seeks Fund To Help DoD With Sequestration

Julie Samuel

Monday, March 25th, 2013

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Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Ranking Member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) wants to create a $16 billion fund to help the Pentagon offset unintended costs the “sequestration” budget cuts could trigger. Inhofe offered an amendment to the Senate Budget Resolution on Friday--during a “vote-a-rama” on hundreds of amendments to the nonbinding measure--that would create an emergency Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund “to address irrecoverable impacts on the Department of Defense incurred as a result of sequestration.” “One thing that has not…

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