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Budget

Service Chiefs Tell HASC They Cannot Support Defense Strategy With Full Sequester

Mai Hanoon

Thursday, September 19th, 2013

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The service chiefs spent Wednesday morning outlining the effects of full sequestration to the House Armed Services Committee, after committee chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) told them in his opening statement he was “disappointed and troubled by the lack of specificity” in the Defense Department’s Strategic Choices and Management Review that analyzed the effects of several budget scenarios. McKeon told the chiefs that he saw little new information in the SCMR, so for the next two hours and 40 minutes the…

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Congress

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