"Our understanding with them is that we would use the money that previously went to sequestration to enhance security in courts".
"If we want sequestration to have a serious market share in managing the climate problem by 2040, we have to start yesterday," he said.
Economists expect the jobs hit from sequestration to be significant, but backloaded toward the end of the year.
The Southern Congress designed the Act of Sequestration to strike at Northern financial interests within the Confederate states.
Mr. Obama needed to negotiate deep ones — now known as sequestration — to defer the threat of a government default past his re-election campaign.
The president took his case against sequestration to the nation in Tuesday's State of the Union address: These sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts would jeopardize our military readiness.
Democrats want the across-the-board cuts known as sequestration to last only through mid-November; Republicans want them to last as long as possible".
Subcommittee members of both parties cautioned Mr. Huerta not to expect sequestration to be over on Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.
The fiscal-cliff negotiations, which were the product of the recent debt-ceiling fight, just made it worse by deferring another constructed crisis involving automatic cuts — sequestration — to about the same juncture.
Radiocarbon dating of soils, when combined with previous models of carbon uptake, has shown the widely assumed potential for carbon sequestration to combat climate change has been overestimated by as much as 40%.
As of this week, unemployment insurance payments going out to more than 20,000 of Nevada's long-term unemployed shrunk a whopping 59 percent, with the across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration to blame.
