McKeon shoots video attacking Reid on sequestration

“At the same time, they offer no plans of their own,”
McKeon says.

McKeon makes the argument that sequestration, the 10-year
automatic cut of about $500 billion to both defense and non-defense spending,
is happening now, not when it kicks in in January 2013, because companies are
preparing for the cuts with layoffs.

{mosads}“If Sen. Reid doesn’t have a plan of his own, he must
allow the Senate to consider one of the other plans that have been introduced,”
McKeon says.

Reid has said he is blocking the House-passed budget plan to
stop the first year of sequestration cuts to defense through a reconciliation
process that has deeper spending cuts to other discretionary spending.

At the same time, senators from both parties say there are
ongoing informal discussions throughout the Senate to find a solution to
sequestration, as well as the George W. Bush-era tax rates and the debt ceiling, all of
which loom at year’s end.

McKeon has proposed a separate plan to delay sequestration
for one year with a 10 percent cut to the federal workforce, but no Democrats
have joined onto his bill.