Volume XVII No.34: September 14, 2012
By Taxpayers for Common Sense– If irony is a crucial ingredient to comedy, the House of Representatives was a laugh riot this week thanks to some serious silliness about sequestration and defense spending. ![\"A_Man_Throwing_Wads_Paper_Into_a_Waste_Basket_Royalty_Free_Clipart_Picture_110206-162541-410053\"](\"https://www.gloucestercitynews.net/.a/6a00d8341bf7d953ef017c31e355ab970b-200wi\" "\\"A_Man_Throwing_Wads_Paper_Into_a_Waste_Basket_Royalty_Free_Clipart_Picture_110206-162541-410053\\"/")
The very same day that the House took up a bill to fund the government for another six months—a stopgap measure to kick funding decisions for fiscal year 2013 to the next Congress—it passed legislation introduced by Representative Allen West (R-FL) that would put the brakes on the defense spending cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act (BCA), itself a stopgap measure.
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