In This Issue:

Leading the Past Week; Legislative Branch; Executive Branch; and Upcoming Hearings.

Excerpt from Leading the Past Week -

With both the House and Senate on recess this past week, the President stepped into the void to take full advantage of his bully pulpit and attempted to hammer the Republicans on the sequester. By the end of the week, with the general consensus in Washington coalescing around the inevitability of sequester both sides had degenerated into a he said / she said blame game.