Hawaii Defense Cuts Loom After Super Committee Implodes

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WASHINGTON — A congressional panel's failure to propose at least $1.2 trillion in federal spending cuts this week has potentially major implications for Hawaii.

The so-called super committee's impasse triggers an automatic cuts process known as sequestration that would slash $1 trillion in defense spending over the course of a decade beginning in January 2013. About half of that amount comes from cuts that the Defense Department agreed to make with or without sequestration.

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