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Yes Sequestration – Obama VetoObama is holding the line on defense spending – will veto GOP attemptsJeremy Herb, 5-15-2012, “Obama administration threatens veto over Defense Bill,” The Hill, http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/budget-approriations/227577-obama-administration-threatens-veto-over-defense-bill The Obama administration threatened Tuesday to veto the House version of the Defense authorization bill that's headed to the floor this week over restrictions on implementing the New START treaty, reducing the U.S. nuclear arsenal and limiting the transfer of Guantanamo detainees. The veto threat also conditionally extends to the overall size of the bill, which is $3.7 billion above President Obama’s request and $8 billion higher than the Budget Control Act spending caps. The veto threat is an early attempt by the administration to influence the Defense bill in Congress, which the House is expected to pass this week and the Senate will take up next week in committee. Obama will veto any attempt to undo sequesterShira Schoenberg, 5-29-2012, “Sen. Scott Brown opposes pending cuts,” Mass Live, http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/05/sen_scott_brown_opposes_pendin.html The debate over sequestration has been stalled, as members from both parties agree it is unlikely Congress will be able to accomplish anything before the November election. Mackenzie Eaglen, a resident fellow at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said the effects of the proposed cuts will start to be felt this summer when the Department of Defense must develop a plan in anticipation of potential cuts, resulting in possible furloughs or a hesitancy to invest in defense projects. House Republicans proposed a bill that would cut social programs such as food stamps instead of defense, and President Barack Obama has said he will veto it. Eaglen said senators have been working on proposals in closed-door sessions, but no plan has been released. “People are paying lip service to no one wants sequestration to happen, but at the same time, the Senate has not and will not move any bill with a proposal to alter it,” Eaglen said. Auto cuts are safe—Obama will veto any reversal and dems will fightJeremy Herb, Staff Writer, 12-15-2011, “House Democrats blast GOP efforts to avoid automatic defense cuts,” The Hill, http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/budget-approriations/199697-house-dems-trash-gop-efforts-to-change-defense-sequestration-cuts House Democrats on Thursday panned Republican efforts to change the automatic cuts to defense spending, beginning a contentious debate that’s set to play out over the next year. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) said Wednesday they will propose legislation early next year that would stop sequestration defense cuts, while House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) introduced a bill to kill the first year of cuts to both defense and non-defense spending. House Democrats responded Thursday with a letter signed by 92 members supporting President Obama’s veto threat if Congress tries to avoid the $600 billion in defense cuts without replacing them. Just as the debate in the supercommittee stalled over raising taxes, the fight over changing the defense cuts will be waged over how to mix spending cuts and raising revenues to cut $1 trillion from the budget. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), who circulated the letter, acknowledged that many Democrats agree the automatic defense cuts should be lessened, but said that new revenues had to be included in the conversation. No Spending – AT: Foreign Aid NowMassive aid cuts comingJohn Norris, executive director of the Center for American Progress’ sustainable security and peacebuilding initiative, 2-9-2012, “What should we expect from the President’s 2013 assistance budget?” http://www.modernizeaid.net/2012/02/09/what-should-we-expect-from-the-presidents-2013-assistance-budget/ It is a reasonable negotiating strategy, although it may prove to be a poor management decision. Looking at our relative fiscal health as a country, it seems almost inescapable that eventually there will be steep cuts in our foreign affairs spending as part of some grand bargain (however begrudging) that includes both spending cuts and revenue increases. We will likely see few signs of this in the President’s budget request, which will read very much as a status quo request where we see shifts in emphasis, but no dramatic headlines. For those of us who care about effective assistance programs and the health of the U.S. economy, this amounts to whistling past the graveyard and hoping for the best. Aid to Tunisia needs to be approved – wont happenShaun Tandon, staff writer, 3-29-2012, “US to provide $100 million to Tunisia,” AFP, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hEu6OAJ6GKNrPCUlfHQ2AreDbt1w?docId=CNG.986cfcc24d5cff1f983c8f37ea3af555.61 WASHINGTON — The United States said Thursday it would grant $100 million to Tunisia to pay its debts, hoping to let the government focus on the economy and show a success in the birthplace of the Arab Spring. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States was also negotiating a separate package in which Washington would offer loan guarantees to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in capital for Tunisia. Clinton, who spoke by telephone Wednesday with Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, said the aid would let Tunisia pare down debts to the World Bank and African Development Bank left over from dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's 23-year regime. The $100 million US cash transfer will allow Tunisia "to instead use this money for its priority programs, accelerating economic growth and job creation," Clinton said in a statement. "As Tunisia progresses into the next phase of its historic democratic transition, the United States is working to help accelerate economic growth that benefits all, ensure that democracy delivers for the Tunisian people, and to help Tunisian businesses -- large and small -- become engines of job creation," Clinton said. "We call on other partners in the international community to join us in supporting Tunisia and ensuring economic opportunities for more Tunisian people," she said. The grant still needs approval from Congress. Many lawmakers, particularly from the Republican Party which controls the House of Representatives, are skeptical of foreign aid and have voiced alarm over Islamism in the Arab world. Foreign aid will be cut in the squoJohn Norris, the Executive Director of the Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative at the Center for American Progress, 10-11-2011, “Foreign Aid Cuts Can Be Reasonable”, US News, http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/given-the-current-deficit-crisis-should-foreign-aid-be-cut/foreign-aid-cuts-can-be-reasonable-foreign-aid-cuts-can-be-reasonable Even though foreign aid makes up only about 1 percent of the total federal budget, it is impossible to imagine that it will not be cut given the harrowing overall budget situation. And that is reasonable. The challenge will be to avoid cutting so deeply that we actually undermine our long-term national interests, such as helping the poorest of the poor, combating disease, establishing better disaster early warning systems, or creating tomorrow's markets for American industry. [Read more about the deficit and national debt.] How we go about implementing these cuts may be every bit as important as their overall scale. The worst approach would be to simply lop off the same percentage from all aid programs equally. Instead, we need to use these budget pressures to be much more selective in how we deliver aid and who we deliver it to. That means Congress needs to have the discipline to set aside pet projects like our assistance to Ireland and subsidies for the maritime industry that make it much more expensive to deliver lifesaving humanitarian assistance. The administration will need to do its part as well, and large expensive programs like aid to Pakistan will be under fierce scrutiny given the often troubling behavior of the Pakastani government. Increasing numbers of countries in Eastern Europe and Latin America simply no longer need U.S. assistance and some, like Brazil, are becoming donors themselves. Directory: file -> fetch fetch -> 11 th Lit Semester 1 Final Study Guide!!! fetch -> Industrial Revolution Inventors fetch -> Analysis for Galveston Hurricane of 1900 fetch -> The Illuminators (Team 2) 1900 Galveston Hurricane Cycle a team Assignment fetch -> Team csi-utb ruth Reyes Jose Ferrer fetch -> Galveston Hurricane of 1900 Cycle a-teacher as a Problem Solver fetch -> Is Climate Change Starting a New Dust Bowl? Cycle A fetch -> What makes a storm a hurricane fetch -> The 1950s were the "Happy Days" because it was a time of economic prosperity, technology development, new entertainment, new fashion and family growth. 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