Defense Contractors at Kaine Roundtable: 'We've Been Sequestered Already'
Defense contractors speaking with Sen. Tim Kaine on Monday say federal agencies are preparing for potential cuts and acting as if they've already happened.
About 30 representatives of defense contractors from Northern Virginia met with Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine on Monday in Arlington for a roundtable discussion and agreed on one fairly simple message to Congress: Make a decision. It might be funny if nearly 200,000 Virginia jobs weren't on the line and the very idea of sequestration hadn't come to epitomize the dysfunction on Capitol Hill. If lawmakers fail to reach a compromise, then $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts, half to the defense industry, will go into effect. The latest deadline is March 1. The contractors talked about various ways the threat of sequestration was "paralyzing" the industry: Federal agencies are preparing for sequestration and acting as if it has already happened, said …
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7:27 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Moran, Wolfe, Connelly, Cantor, Hurt, and Scott; Each of you need to submit a proposal for the budget and non-DoD Sesesquation. It doesn't matter what side it comes from at this point. I'm about to lose my job and your lack of leadership for Virginian's are to blame. My DoD contractors put in more dedication and time than the front office secretary (admin assistant who is a gov't employee) just … more ›