various ways the most vulnerable americans have been hurt by the automatic across the board spending cuts called the sequester. remember this washington post headline, cancer clinics are turning away thousands of medicare patients. blame the sequester. huffington post listed 100 places across the country where cuts are hurting sacramento schools which will see special education cuts and west virginia program to end poverty. stopped all new projects until september. but this week when frequent fliers were inconvenienced that got congress moving with lightning legislative speed. the senate, then the house passed a bill that would ease flight delays by putting furloughed air traffic controllers back to work. today on the house floor, maryland s steny hoyer was outraged. while i was to end these delays for passengers in maryland, across the country, i will oppose this bill because it fails to address the whole impact of sequester.
sequester. remember this washington post headline, cancer clinics are turning away thousands of medicare patients. blame the sequester. huffingen to post listed 100 places across the country where cuts are hurting sacramento schools which will see special education cuts and west virginia program to end poverty. stopped all new projects until september. but this week when frequent f fliers were inconvenienced that got congress moving with lightning legislative speed. the senate, then the house passed a bill that would ease flight delays by putting furloughed air traffic controllers back to work. today on the house floor, maryland s steny hoyer was outraged. while i was to end these delays for passengers in maryland, across the country, i will oppose this bill because it fails to address the whole impact of sequester. let me share just a handful of examples of how the sequester will affect americans. education. head start. 70,000 children will be kicked out of head start.
on april 1st makes it impossible to administer expensive chemotherapy drugs. patients would need to seek treatment elsewhere such as at hospitals. to give you an example, sacramento schools will see special education cuts. utah felt cuts in their emergency unemployment benefits. a west virginia program to end poverty stopped all new projects until september. and down in chapel hill where i went to school, they could lose a bunch of work study opportunities for students down there. so until now, at least, republicans feel they ve had the high ground on this issue of sequestration. it may take more reporting on the effects the cuts have been having to even the score. joining me, two hardball strategists on how their own party is jockeying for position on the issue and how it should be. robert gibbs, of course, a genius, served as white house press secretary under president obama and now is an msnbc political analyst. tom davis served as republican congressman from northern
which took effect for medicare on april 1st makes it impossible to administer expensive che chemotherapy drugs. patients would need to seek treatment elsewhere such as at hospit hospitals. to give you an example, sacramento schools will see special education cuts. utah felt cuts in their emergency unemployment benefits. a west virginia program to end poverty stopped all new projects until september. and down in chapel hill where i went to school, they could lose a bunch of work study opportunities for students down there. so until now, at least, republicans feel they ve had the high ground on this issue of sequestration. it may take more reporting on the effects the cuts have been having to even the score. joining me, two hardball strategists on how their own party is jockeying for position on the issue and how it should be. robert gibbs, of course, a genius, served as white house press secretary under president obama and now is an msnbc political analyst.
the post reports cuts across the country turned away medicare patients blaming the sequester budget cuts. colleges say the reduced funding which took effect for medicare on april 1st makes it impossible to administer expensive chemotherapy drugs. patients would need to seek treatment elsewhere such as at hospitals. to give you an example, sacramento schools will see special education cuts. utah felt cuts in their emergency unemployment benefits. a west virginia program to end poverty stopped all new projects until september. and down in chapel hill where i went to school, they could lose a bunch of work study opportunities for students down there. so until now, at least, republicans feel they ve had the high ground on this issue of sequestration. it may take more reporting on the effects the cuts have been having to even the score. joining me, two hardball strategists on how their own party is jockeying for position on the issue and how it should be. robert gibbs, of course, a geni