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Budget

Pentagon Officials Brief Non-HASC Members on Sequestration’s Effect on Readiness

Mai Hanoon

Friday, November 15th, 2013

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Twenty-eight members of Congress attended a classified briefing yesterday afternoon hosted by House Armed Services Committee chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) and HASC readiness subcommittee chairman Rob Wittman (R-Va.) to learn about military budgeting, what goes into keeping the military ready, and how sequestration is hurting military readiness more than other military spending. “Today was a good first step,” Wittman said, but he added that today would be the first in a series of these educational briefings aimed at helping non-HASC…

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