Associations react skeptically to Obama's call to delay sequestration President Barack Obama proposed Tuesday that Congress push back the March 1 deadline for a series of steep federal budget cuts under sequestration, but many business groups said what was needed isn't short-term fix, but a long-term solution. Among them was TechAmerica, whose senior vice president of public sector Trey Hodgkins said it was time to "get down to serious business to avert sequesration and pass a budget." "If allowed to take effect, sequestration will devastate the economy, roll back critical government services like national defense and have a long lasting impact that we have only begun to… Read More