U.S. Reps. Jim Moran and Gerry Connolly both hope there's some compromise before a possible government shutdown later in March.
Northern Virginia Congressmen Gerry Connolly (D-11th) and Jim Moran (D-8th) said Friday Congress is "dysfunctional" just a few hours before President Obama signed an order for the sequester. "It's a dysfunctional Congress," said Moran, who spoke with Patch Friday. "I think it ill-serves the people of the United States today. It's very frustrating, very disappointing. It's an institution that is not serving its functions." President Obama ordered the sequester just after 8:30 p.m. Friday, triggering spending cuts that were meant as a negative consequence for Congress for failing to come to an agreement on the budget. "It is the consequence of a dysfunctional Congress," Connolly said. "It's the consequence of ideological dynamics that …
Defense contractors speaking with Sen. Tim Kaine on Monday say federal agencies are preparing for potential cuts and acting as if they've already happened.
About 30 representatives of defense contractors from Northern Virginia met with Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine on Monday for a roundtable discussion and agreed on one fairly simple message to Congress: Make a decision. It might be funny if nearly 200,000 Virginia jobs weren't on the line and the very idea of sequestration hadn't come to epitomize the dysfunction on Capitol Hill. If lawmakers fail to reach a compromise, then $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts, half to the defense industry, will go into effect. The latest deadline is March 1. The contractors talked about the various ways the threat of sequestration was "paralyzing" the industry: Companies are delaying orders whenever they can. They aren't hiring to fill vacant positions. They aren't…
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