The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee today predicted huge automatic budget cuts would be triggered March 1, but said the resulting public outcry ideally would pressure Congress to negotiate the end of sequestration within "weeks, not months." Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) lamented that lawmakers have been unable to "get past the politics" of sequestration. When there is "enough pain," lawmakers might be driven to the negotiating table, he said at a breakfast with reporters in Washington. He also...
