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Today, Congressman Ken Calvert (R-Corona) voted along with a bipartisan majority of his House colleagues to pass H.R. 933, the Department of Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013. The bill provides funding to operate federal government agencies until the end of the fiscal year on September 30, 2013.
I supported House passage of two bills that replaced sequestration with reforms that resulted in smarter cuts in other areas of the budget. Unfortunately the Senate did not take up those bills, the President has not shown leadership on this issue and now sequestration will go into effect on Friday, March 1.
CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS – FOREIGN POLICY
Sept. 20, 2012; Updated 6:06 p.m.
By John M. Donnelly and Emily Cadei, CQ Staff
House appropriators raged Thursday about the continuing flow from Pakistan into Afghanistan of fertilizer that forms the main ingredient in the roadside bombs that are killing about half the troops who die in the war zone.