To follow the saga of the "supercommittee," which has just nine days left before its deadline for cutting the nation's deficit , it may help to know these few words of Congress-ese. On Capitol Hill, "sequester" is a noun, a "trigger" is something that pulls you, and the word for "war" has 27 letters. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.