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Thursday, Feb 7, 2013
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, was joined at a press conference Wednesday by HASC Vice Chairman Mac Thornberry, Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee Chairman Michael Turner, and Senators Inhofe, Ayotte, McCain, and Graham, where they unveiled the...
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Wednesday, Feb 6, 2013
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer
When it comes to the fiscal challenges facing our country, Republicans always insist on taking the hard road.
They nearly set off a recession by waiting until just after New Year’s Eve to agree to keep taxes from rising for millions of middle-class families. They caused...
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Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013
The White House
In a statement from the briefing room Tuesday, President Obama explained that while our economy is headed in the right direction, looming automatic budget cuts will cost jobs and slow down our recovery.
But, those deep, indiscriminate cuts to job-creating investments and defense spending,...
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Thursday, Jan 17, 2013
U.S. Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon
Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-Santa Clarita), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, responded Wednesday to a letter from the Joint Chiefs of Staff warning of the devastating impact on the U.S. military if sequestration becomes a reality.
In...
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Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013
President Barack Obama walked into the East Room of the White House on Monday for his final press conference of his first administration and forcefully threw down the gauntlet at the feet of Republicans in Congress.
With strength in his voice, Obama said, “We are not a deadbeat nation.”
Obama pointed...
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Monday, Jan 14, 2013
U.S. Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon
U.S. Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, sent a letter to the White House Office of Budget and Management on Monday protesting the budgetary challenges created by the lack of a federal budget for 2014 and the looming threat of sequestration.
The...
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Tuesday, Jan 8, 2013
When reporters asked him about the budget process during a news conference here today, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little had a plain-spoken answer.
“I could try to be somewhat heartfelt and diplomatic, but I’ll boil it down to this: it is, at this stage, a mess,” he said.
The instability...
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Monday, Jan 7, 2013
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer
Not every issue is a fiscal cliff.
This week we had a real fiscal cliff that needed to be addressed. Without action by Congress, tax rates for millions of middle-class families were set to rise. Tax breaks like the child tax credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit and the tuition...
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Once again, we had another fiscal emergency. Well, THEY had a self-made emergency. Yes, our federal government, our legislators, the ones who created this “fiscal cliff” mess in the first place and had more than two years to work toward a resolution, decided to wait until the last minute and act...
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Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013
In this episode:
The fiscal cliff was avoided Tuesday after the House voted to pass a belated compromise; New legislation would allow public-private partnerships to expand veteran housing; SB 1458 makes standardized test scores play a less important role in student evaluation.
Also:
Santa Clarita’s...
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