How is the Senate's proposed arbitrary cut in funding for civilian personnel different from the sequestration that would result from the Budget Control Act? Aren't both arbitrary cuts in funding that would mindlessly eliminate defense industrial base jobs and undermine our economic recovery?
Questions the difference between Senate cuts and sequestration's impact on defense jobs.
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This is not a fault of anybody who put these laws together way back in 1937.
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