Sentence examples for sequestration fix from inspiring English sources

The only other sequestration fix that may come out of the House in the coming weeks would spare oncologists from a 2 percent cut in reimbursements for chemotherapy.

Democrats are split between those who continue to oppose a broad sequestration fix unless it includes some revenue increases and those who say it is time to give up and mitigate the damage as best they can.

The ability of Congress to move with haste amazed those organizations and advocates who have spent months -- and in some cases, years -- lobbying lawmakers to come to an agreement on a sequestration fix.

I'm willing to raise $600 billion in new revenue if my Democratic friends would be willing to reform entitlements, and we can fix sequestration together".

It's a strategy Democrats are hoping will lure Republicans to the negotiating table to fix sequestration for domestic programs.

As for what the landscape will look like 10 years from now if sequestration isn't fixed, he doesn't mince words.

Thune said his party is interested in fixing sequestration on defense but not much else, hinting at a bumpy road ahead for spending bills.

"The President has been very clear about the core principle that he will not support a budget that locks in sequestration, and he will not fix defense without fixing non-defense spending," the Office of Management and Budget said when the bill was first proposed.

Instead, as we speak, our political class in Washington is attempting to fix the debt by sequestration -- Washington doublespeak for bleeding services for veterans and the elderly, the sick and poor, for kids in Head Start.

What compels a lawmaker to fix the impacts of sequestration if those impacts are hard to see? Timothy Leshan, the vice president for government relations at Northeastern University, called it "the stimulus in reverse". Back in 2009, everyone was wondering where the benefits were from all the money the federal government had spent.

"We can't say it will fix every problem caused by sequestration, but it will provide some flexibility," a senior Democratic aide told me.