EFTA01133078Set 9
2013-09-2932p16,668w
long-lasting harm. It will preserve the deeply damaging spending
cuts, known as the sequester, that are costing jobs and hurting the lives of millions.
Most of the attention given ... itself is pernicious because it preserves through mid-December all the blunt and arbitrary
sequester cuts that began in March, making it much less likely those cuts will be replaced ... budget. Although many Democrats in both chambers would prefer a resolution that
repudiates the sequester cuts now, they are resigned to what is known as a "clean C.R.," a continuing
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EFTA00875611Set 9
2013-02-1019p9,547w
media focus is on the obvious hot issues — immigration, guns, the sequester, and
so on. But let's try not to let this one fall through the cracks: just four ... benefits is about to be cut by an arbitrary process known as the sequester, instigated
by the 2011 Republican rampage against government. Over the next seven months alone, the cuts ... says up to 1.4 million jobs are at stake. The effect of the coming sequester was already evident
in last week's announcement that the economy actually contracted during
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EFTA01089619Set 9
2013-04-2546p24,794w
moderate However, we believe the weakness can partly be attributed to tax hikes and sequester spending cuts, which are expected
to fade. As such we believe it is likely ... flexibility !pan I 4 .I7 00 1. 3. I5
to the implementation of the sequester spending cuts, but we don't expect any additional cuts. We estimate ... increased moderately in the future. • Capital expend lures - Residential investment
• We think the sequester spending cuts will remain in place but that new budget negotiations related to a necessary
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EFTA00611913Set 9
2013-02-272p773w
make further proposals until each
actually passes a replacement to the sequester — not a gimmick or something that looks like an
alternative, but the real thing.
With everyone ... Murray in the Senate, and on anything the Republicans
care to proffer, including the sequester itself.
Let the House Republican majority show that it can come up with a substantial ... Boehner keeps saying that the House has twice voted for ways to replace
the sequester. What he doesn't say is that those votes were held in the last Congress
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EFTA00636801Set 9
2013-08-0416p7,807w
pass and fumed in a written statement that the automatic cuts, known as the sequester, are recklessly
austere and should be abandoned. "Sequestration — and it's unrealistic and ill-conceived ... attainable — way."
The development suggests that Republican support is eroding rapidly for the sequester, weakening the
hand of House Speaker John A. Boehner (Ohio) as Republicans brace for another ... more generous Democratic version of the
transportation measure that proposes to cancel the sequester entirely. Without an agreement on how
to fund federal agencies in 2014, the nation faces
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EFTA01102141Set 9
2013-02-272p773w
make further proposals until each
actually passes a replacement to the sequester — not a gimmick or something that looks like an
alternative, but the real thing.
With everyone ... Murray in the Senate, and on anything the Republicans
care to proffer, including the sequester itself.
Let the House Republican majority show that it can come up with a substantial ... Boehner keeps saying that the House has twice voted for ways to replace
the sequester. What he doesn't say is that those votes were held in the last Congress
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EFTA01758290Set 10
2013-05-0525p12,130w
truly encouraging is that
this positive news comes in the shadow of the sequester's automatic
spending cuts, causing federal government employment (excluding postal
service) to fall ... businesses are relying on
part-time workers and possibly reflecting the impact of the sequester. And
a broader measure of unemployment, capturing people who have given up
looking ... part, the onset of automatic budget cuts under the
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sequester. The hit from lower public spending will only intensify in the
quarters to come
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EFTA01144413Set 9
2013-05-1220p12,056w
President, her reply was that the President was wrong when he said that The Sequester
would hurt the economy, even though most economists say that The Sequester ... this week, Letter to The Editor under the heading — Losing Head
Start makes the sequester scary.
In his May 3 op-ed, "Scare tactics didn't work,"Sen. Roy Blunt ... accused President Obama of
conducting a "'sequester' scare campaign." Yet the senator — and all of us — should have been scared
already, because the consequences suffered by our nation's poor
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EFTA01136195Set 9
2013-05-0520p12,290w
truly encouraging is that this
positive news comes in the shadow of the sequester's automatic spending cuts, causing federal
government employment (excluding postal service) to fall ... businesses are relying on part-time workers and possibly reflecting the impact of the
sequester. And a broader measure of unemployment, capturing people who have given up looking ... growth, reflecting, in part,
the onset of automatic budget cuts under the sequester. The hit from lower public spending will only
intensify in the quarters to come as the sequester
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EFTA00652576Set 9
2013-03-1026p14,266w
else that happened last week, (the Pope retiring, the death of Hugo Chavez, the
sequester and Rand Paul thirteen hour filibuster in the US Senate), you may have not noticed ... have military
forces/bases in Germany, Korea and Japan? And why during the sequester — and $85 billion this
year in across-the-board budget cuts, about half of which will come ... with us. In the seemingly endless
manufactured crisis over the 'fiscal cliff' and the sequester, it's amazing how much airtime and print
space have been devoted to the deficit
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EFTA01133557Set 9
2013-09-0841p16,854w
shrink U.S. debt and federal deficits,
the odds for a comprehensive agreement that replaces "sequester" spending cuts and lifts the debt
ceiling have fallen dramatically. "Syria has really scrambled ... everyone a little cover because we're not close to a deal to
kill sequester or to raise the debt ceiling. Lawmakers could claim, with justification, that they've been ... past and recently were discussed as part of
replacement options for the sequester. But as a political tactic, this is a bit of a gamble for the
administration. Instead
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