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AIA: House Defense Appropriations Bill Ignores Sequestration
2013-07-30 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
AIA applauds passage of House Defense Appropriations Bill, which provides $512.5 billion in base funding and $85.8 billion for overseas contingency operations. However, while bill is more than $28 billion above levels mandated under Budget Control Act of 2011, it still represents a reduction of nearly $3.4 billion from Defense Department’s 2014 request for its base budget. More importantly, the bill ignores cuts that would be imposed under sequestration. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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Obama Administration to Rely on Clean Coal and Unproven Sequestration to Combat Climate Change
2013-07-05 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DeSmogBlog: The key takeaway from President Obama`s major climate change announcement last week was his intent to batten down on coal. But if history is any indication, the man Mr. Obama selected to run the Department of Energy may have different plans. Ernest J. Moniz has a long history of supporting coal-powered electricity, staking his arguments in favor of coal on a technology that remains entirely unproven: carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). Mr. Moniz will be in a uniquely influential position...
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Sequestration Cynicism
2013-06-22 15:51:10| Telecom - Topix.net
Defense contractor L-3 Communications faces a class action lawsuit over its handling of layoffs at an Army airfield in Georgia, sparking renewed anger in Congress over an issue that first flared up during last year's presidential campaign.
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DOD Report Details Sequestration Impact
2013-06-14 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Calling upon Congress and President Obama to use upcoming budget cycle to reverse sequestration budget cuts, AIA President and CEO Marion C. Blakey cited "two huge waves" threatening the industrial base. First wave identified by Blakey was $37 billion dollar sequester "which falls heaviest against investment accounts," and second wave pertained to potential strikes "if current law holds and the fiscal year 2014 budget is hit by an even larger sequestration amount of $55 billion." This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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Budget airlines: FAA wins first round in the battle over sequestration
2013-06-14 01:00:00| Airport Technology
What began as a dispute over unpaid leave for air traffic controllers has escalated into a stand-off between the US Government, the Federal Aviation Administration and labour unions, over federal budget cuts and passenger safety. Julian Turner report
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