Kaine optimistic about deal to lessen defense cuts

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http://hamptonroads.com/2013/12/kaine-optimistic-about-deal-lessen-defense-cuts

Kaine optimistic about deal to lessen defense cuts
By Bill Bartel
The Virginian-Pilot
© December 3, 2013

NORFOLK

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine told workers at a Norfolk shipyard on Monday that he's optimistic a budget deal can be struck in Washington to lessen the impact of automatic defense cuts that threaten Navy ship repair contracts next year.

But the Virginia Democrat cautioned that the repair industry, which employs thousands in Hampton Roads, remains vulnerable.

"I'm not saying that ship repair won't see any belt-tightening," Kaine told workers at BAE Systems Ship Repair near the Norfolk riverfront. "We're going to be doing belt-tightening across all the accounts because we've got a $17 trillion deficit."

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The senator said he came to the shipyard, which he last visited as governor more than four years ago, to collect "good ammo" that he can use to help persuade others in Congress to replace or lessen the impact of sequestration. The automatic cuts begun earlier this year require $1.2 trillion in across-the-board reductions, with half from defense and half from domestic programs.



unhappycamper comment: Is Sen. Kaine saying that the five billion dollars that Congress from SNAP food programs OK but the Pentagon is too important?

I don't like warmongers.