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Madeleine Bordallo: “How is the Senate's proposed arbitrary cut in funding for civilian personnel different from the sequestration that would…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2012
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?
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Madeleine Bordallo
Democratic · Guam

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Questions the difference between Senate cuts and sequestration's impact on defense jobs.

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