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By DEDE BILES
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On Friday, the Department of Defense and other government agencies will suffer a $1.2 trillion budget cut, known as "sequestration." This policy was adopted in July 2011 when congressional leadership negotiated with the White House to raise our debt ceiling, preventing the U.S. Treasury from defaulting on our loans.
President Ronald Reagan's approach to protecting our national security was to provide peace through strength. The United States military has successfully remained the most superior power in the world by practicing this theory. Due to the passage of the Budget Control Act of 2011 last July, the Department of Defense is expected to suffer an automatic across-the-board $500 billion budget cut.
As I watched the Republican presidential candidate debate Oct. 18, I was startled to hear candidates jump at the opportunity to agree with President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on shutting down the nuclear waste
repository at Yucca Mountain.