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Budget

Senate Wants to Include Sequester Flexibility in its Plan to Reopen Government

Mai Hanoon

Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

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Senate leaders working on a compromise to open the government and raise the debt limit hope to include flexibility in implementing sequestration cuts--which military leaders have begged for months --though the House has not discussed defense spending or increased flexibility in its negotiations, leaders said. Speaking on the Senate floor late Tuesday morning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that a House Republican plan announced earlier in the morning would be dead on arrival. That plan, though it calls…

Congress

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Army

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