Eric Cantor trying to negotiate year-end trigger bargain
Romney vows to reverse Obama’s ‘massive defense cuts’ … that never happened
The State of the Union and the Military: Balancing Defense With Debt
"Deficit Hawk" received $7.6 billion in federal contracts
We're all learning a lot about how to reduce the deficit today, aren’t we? Personally, I've learned that if you are the CEO of a company that receive 3,135 federal contracts worth a total of $7,581,183,813 over the past decade, as Honeywell International did, then the Associated Press thinks you are a “deficit...
Clock Winds Down on Democratic Dominance in Congress
Deficit commission exacerbates civil war in GOP on defense spending
Republicans are all for austerity when it means veterans and seniors tightening their belts. But they don't like it one bit when it's the corporations that pay for their re-election or employ people in their own districts. Politico highlights the pending GOP civil war over defense spending as heightened by the catfood commission recommendations.
...Democrats Begin Drive to Push Through Priorities Before Elections
Webb: Cut Defense Spending, Too
Former Navy secretary and current Senator Jim Webb, who is also on the Armed Services Committee, adds his voice to the chorus of people calling for the defense budget to be included in a spending freeze.
Saying that there’s no reason military spending should be “sacrosanct,” Webb urged Defense Secretary Robert Gates...
Bipartisanship from Boehner?
Yesterday on MTP, John Boehner had a moment of bipartisan agreement with Nancy Pelosi, who wants discretionary defense spending included in any spending freeze.
Boehner agrees: Here's his discussion with David Gregory:
GREGORY: The question of spending and commonsense steps that could be taken, you heard David Axelrod say, “Look,...
Pelosi, Defense Analysts: Include Defense Pork in Spending Freeze
If we're going to have a federal spending freeze, why not hit the most egregious target--defense pork? Nancy Pelosi is making that argument now, too.
"While we all want to support our men and women in uniform... and our national defense and our veterans, I don't think that we should protect...
How About Freezing Defense Spending?
How did we get into such a budget mess? The disastrous Bush tax cuts for the wealthy (passed by reconciliation, thank you very much) and two never-ending wars, replete with extremely lucrative contracts to political allies like Eric Prince. Which brings us to spending freezes.
