AIA News 2012
Media Advisory: Aerospace Industries Association CEO to Address NAA on ‘Fiscal Cliff’
December 11, 2012
In speech to National Aeronautic Association, AIA’s Marion Blakey to repeat warning on fiscal cliff, call for immediate sequestration fix
Arlington, Va. – In a speech to the National Aeronautic Association on Tuesday, Aerospace Industries Association President & CEO Marion C. Blakey will again sound the alarm about the dangers posed by sequestration cuts, including the potential loss of 229,000 non-defense federal jobs that Blakey said is equivalent to “the elimination of more positions than the number of employees who work at the departments of Agriculture and Transportation combined. Or put another way, nearly the entire population of Madison, Wisconsin.”
WHO:
Marion C. Blakey
President & CEO, Aerospace Industries Association
WHAT:
Speech to the National Aeronautic Assocation on the “fiscal cliff” and the proposed budget cuts
WHEN:
12:45 PM Eastern Time
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
WHERE:
Marriott Crystal Gateway
1700 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, Virginia 22202 USA
Event is OPEN PRESS. Embargoed copies of Ms. Blakey’s speech will be made available starting at 12:30 PM ET.
