Breitbart – Tony Lee –
7/21/2012
According to The
Hill, the bill passed in a 414-2 vote, and the
language in the bill is similar to language in an amendment to a Senate farm
bill that calls on the Defense Department to issue a report on the economic
impact of defense sequestration by August 15.
The Obama administration has not indicated which programs they intend to
cut, and pressure is mounting on the administration and Democrats to lessen cuts
from defense spending.
Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) said that the Obama administration needed to
give details about the pending defense cuts in order to give industries that
would be impacted a heads-up.
Democrats have been trying to get Republicans to raise taxes for a
reduction in defense cuts, but Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) -- and other Republicans --
are not falling for their ploy.
"Since there's an absence of leadership on these critical fiscal issues from the president of theUnited States , from the Senate of the
United
States , at the very least, show us how this is
going to work."
"Since there's an absence of leadership on these critical fiscal issues from the president of the
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