By Andrea Hayley

The Epoch Times

March 7, 2011

"Steve Bell, senior director, Economic Policy Project with the Bipartisan Policy Center, and a former Senate Budget Committee staff director, said it was very likely that the majority of jobs lost through H.R. 1 would be government jobs.

He said, under the current circumstances, the main way the government can achieve savings this year on discretionary spending, is on salaries and expenses.

It is very expensive to cancel contracts that have already been started because there are penalties, he said..."

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