The u.s. conference of mayors to fight sequestration cuts

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Conference of Mayors President Philadelphia Michael A. Nutter, along with USCM Second Vice-President Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed will hold a press conference at the National Press Club on Thursday, September 20^th to express the organization’s strong opposition to sequestration cuts. 

Mayors will explain the local impact that sequestration cuts would have on their communities and residents.  Mayors will also release a bi-partisan letter with signatures of mayors from across the country strongly encouraging Congress to work together to find a bi-partisan and balanced solution to achieve deficit reduction that facilitates, not undermines, economic growth in the nation’s cities and metropolitan areas. 

As cities and their suburbs represent nearly 90 percent of the nation’s wage and salary income, 86 percent of the nation’s employment, and are where the majority of people in this country live, mayors maintain that cities and their metro areas – which drive the national economy — will unfairly bear the impact of automatic, across-the-board cuts.

WHO:             Philadelphia (PA) Mayor Michael Nutter, USCM President

            Sacramento (CA) Mayor Kevin Johnson, USCM Second Vice-President

Atlanta (GA) Mayor Kasim Reed, USCM Transportation Committee Chai

Salt Lake City (UT) Mayor Ralph Becker, USCM Community Development and Housing Vice-Chair

Minneapolis (MN) Mayor R.T. Rybak, USCM Metro Ports and Exports Task Force  Vice-Chair

Tom Cochran, USCM CEO and Executive Director

WHAT :         Press Conference to Vocalize Opposition to Sequestration Cuts &

Call for a Balanced Approach

WHEN:           Thursday, September 20^th at 1 p.m.

WHERE:         The National Press Club – First Amendment Room

                        529 14^th Street, NW  20045

The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,295 such cities in the country today, and each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor. Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/usmayors, or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/usmayors.


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Elena Temple Webb
Director of Communications
US Conference of Mayors
1620 I Street, NW
Washington, DC
202-861-6719
etemple@usmayors.org
www.usmayors.org

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