Representative Martha Roby (R-AL) delivered the weekly Republican address. She talked about the Republican alternatives proposed in the House of Representatives for the sequestration budget cuts proposed by President Obama, especially for cuts in military spending.
“Sequestration,” a legal procedure in which every federal agency has the same percentage of its budget taken back in order to cut deficit spending, was agreed to in the Budget Control Act of 2011 and scheduled to happen on March 1, 2013.