Senate Republicans still trying to crash the economy

Sen. Patty Murray (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) You know sequestration; that's the mechanism that Congress and the White House agreed to last year when they negotiated the Budget Control Act to keep Republicans from wrecking the global economy by refusing to raise the nation's debt ceiling. The sequestration means automatic cuts to both the Pentagon and domestic spending if Congress doesn't come up with some other solution by the end of the year. From the ... Full Story »

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