The leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee have called on Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to outline by July 1 how the Pentagon's fiscal year 2014 budget would be cut by $52 billion, as required under sequestration. "As you know, the President’s budget and the budgets passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives all assume that we will avoid sequestration in fiscal year 2014," Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI) and James Inhofe (R-OK) wrote in a May 2 letter...