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The "Sequester" of federal funds that you've been reading about isn't just an abstract budget concept—it's a set of abrupt, indiscriminate, across-the-board cuts that will have real economic consequences for the North Bay and for California. Unless Congress takes action, these spending cuts will affect every American.
Local government officials are scrambling to assess the impact — still largely unknown — of the $85 billion in federal spending cuts due to begin taking effect Friday.
As potential federal sequester funding cuts loom, officials on the North Coast weighed in on how services and recipients will be affected.
Calling from Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, said a sequester would have a “very serious impact” around the state.
Congressman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) says partisanship in the nation's capital is just as bad as everyone thinks and congressional Republicans are playing a dangerous game with the U.S. economy over the severe budget cuts known as sequestration that are due to take effect in March.
“You can learn a lot about this community by spending a couple of hours on Humboldt Bay,” said Congressman Jared Huffman, who is here in Humboldt County for a quick President’s Week visit.
By a robust bipartisan majority, the Senate voted Tuesday to renew the Violence Against Women Act with new assurances that gays and lesbians, immigrants and Native American women will have equal access to the act's anti-domestic violence programs.
New Congressman Jared Huffman is playing to his strengths in Washington, earning appointments to two House of Representatives committees that mirror the responsibilities he had during his time with the California Assembly.
Jared Huffman, the newly elected Democratic member of the House of Representatives representing the newly created 2nd District, expects efforts to find a resolution to the "fiscal cliff" and related economic issues to dominate the first weeks, or perhaps even months, of his first term.
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