Shaheen said the concern is whether we have enough time to deal with all aspects that need to be don

PORTSMOUTH Both of New Hampshire's U.S. senators have joined a bipartisan group of their colleagues in urging Senate leadership airline cheap fares to act now to avert automatic budget cuts set to go into effect Jan. 1.
The letter urges the two Senate leaders to press for bipartisan alternative budget proposals between now and election day in November. It was also signed by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Carl Levin, D-Mich., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.
At issue is so-called sequestration or automatic budget airline cheap fares cuts created in the Budget Control Act of 2011. The law mandated that if a so-called bipartisan supercommittee could not come up with cuts and it did not an automatic $1.2 trillion in cuts would take place during the next 10 years.
The Congressional Budget Office airline cheap fares has already warned that sequestration in combination with the expiration of current tax policy could send our fragile economy back into a recession and raise unemployment above 9 percent, they wrote.
airline cheap fares The implications to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard could be significant. According the OMB, the Navy's operations and maintenance budget the budget that covers the four public shipyards would be cut by $4.3 billion, or 9 percent, in 2013.
Meeting the challenge can't wait until January. They urged McConnell and Reid to work with President Barack Obama and the Congress now to develop short- and long-term alternatives. All ideas should be put on the table, airline cheap fares they said.
Shaheen said the concern is whether we have enough time to deal with all aspects that need to be done (before a new Congress is seated). There's some interest in giving us some time, but I'm not clear how long, she said.
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