WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), the incoming Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today wrote Department of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to request that the Pentagon provide detailed information on the impact of sequestration.
“For the past four years, this Administration has pursued the systematic disarming of U.S. military power under the guise of defense budget cuts in order to maintain significantly higher levels of funding for non-security related domestic programs,” wrote Inhofe. “Both Congress and the Administration have a shared responsibility and, rather than simply blaming Congress as you did repeatedly in yo...
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