Rep. Randy Forbes, chairman of the seapower panel on the House Armed Services Committee, has introduced a bill to undo the automatic cuts to defense spending known as sequestration. (Cuts to domestic programs would proceed apace). While politically a long shot to end all long shots, the bill’s sheer simplicity underscores how artificial and self-imposed the entire sequester crisis is. Click “download this document” at left to read the bill in its entirety — three pages, most of it white space — and click here for our analysis.

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