Representative Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) talked about the impact of sequestration budget cuts on military and homeland security capabilities. She responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
“Sequestration,” a legal procedure in which every federal agency has the same percentage of its budget cut in order to take back deficit spending, was agreed to in the Budget Control Act of 2011 and scheduled to happen on March 1, 2013.
Bobbi Jackson read news headlines from C-SPAN Radio at the end of the program.