By Roxana Tiron BusinessWeek November 22, 2011 Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) — Republicans on the U.S. House and Senate defense committees say they’ll work to block $500 billion in defense budget cuts threatened by the failure of the deficit supercommittee to reach agreement yesterday. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said he will introduce […]
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By Kevin Bogardus The Hill November 22, 2011 The end of the supercommittee is just the beginning for Washington’s lobbyists. The debt panel’s inability to reach an agreement on the deficit won’t trigger reductions in defense and healthcare spending until 2013, giving those powerful sectors and their lobbyists at least a year to wriggle away from […]
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Cuts would hit key Mass. industries 0
By Matt Viser The Boston Globe November 22, 2011 WASHINGTON – The more than $1 trillion in federal budget cuts that could come in January 2013 would slash Massachusetts’ research funding, Medicare payments to hospitals, and contracts for defense companies – all vital sectors of the state’s economy. The state stands to lose more than $680 […]
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Defense lobbyists say cuts mean jobs 0
By Theo Emery Boston Globe OCTOBER 11, 2011 WASHINGTON – Defense lobbyists are packing a potent weapon in the battle to protect their industry: a warning that more cuts to the Pentagon budget will cost jobs, which could hit Massachusetts particularly hard. Often, military contractors focus their pitch for federal dollars on the need to […]
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Many in Both Parties Want a Window Into the Deficit Reduction Panel’s Work 0
By Robert Pear New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/us/politics/deficit-reduction-panel-is-criticized-for-its-secrecy.html OCTOBER 10, 2011 WASHINGTON — On one crucial point, a powerful Congressional committee seeking ways to reduce the federal budget deficit has managed to produce a rare bipartisan consensus: Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives in and out of Congress say the panel is doing too much of its work […]
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By The Hill Staff The Hill: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/185843-top-lobbyists-hired-guns OCTOBER 5, 2011 The Hill’s list of the stars of Washington’s “downtown” firms. Josh Ackil and Matt Tanielian, Franklin Square Group. With clients including Apple, Google and Intel, the two Democrats are among the elite lobbyists for Silicon Valley in Washington. Nick Allard, Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., Micah Green, Jonathan […]
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Senator Threatens to Walk if Debt Panel Hits Defense 0
By Nathan Hodge Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904103404576558993243510256.html SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 A Republican senator threatened to walk out on the special deficit-reduction supercommittee if other members push for new cuts in defense spending. The remark by Sen. Jon Kyl (R.,Ariz.), a defense finance expert and frequent budget negotiator, threatened to shatter any hope for compromise or bipartisan […]
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As Defense Industry Lobbies Against Cuts, Rhetoric Overshoots Reality 0
By Dan Froomkin Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/18/defense-industry-budget_n_929932.html?view=print&comm_ref=false Facing the possibility of actual defense spending cuts for the first time since the end of the Cold War, the nation’s biggest defense contractors have put aside their traditional hyper-competitiveness and joined forces in a messaging and advocacy blitz under the slogan “Second to None.” The campaign’s website, secondtonone.org, warns that […]
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Lobbyists Take Aim at the Supercommittee: Special interests hire powerful Washington firms to protect them from budget cuts 0
By Richard Rubin and Bennett Roth Bloomberg Businessweek: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/lobbyists-take-aim-at-the-supercommittee-08112011.html Washington lobbyists, who usually spend their days and nights tracking the progress of dozens of bills and chasing after hundreds of members of Congress, will have a single place to focus their attention this fall: the 12-member “supercommittee” charged with finding ways to reduce future budget deficits by $1.5 trillion over […]
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Analysis: Health and defense lobby groups ready for super fight 0
By Anna Yukhananov and Jim Wolf Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/11/us-usa-debt-lobbying-idUSTRE77A5ZG20110811 WASHINGTON | Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:17pm EDT (Reuters) – With as much as $1.5 trillion in federal funds hanging in the balance, the mammoth healthcare and defense industries are scrambling to lobby a special congressional committee tasked with slashing the deficit — but in markedly different ways. The 12-member bipartisan […]
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