Newhouse helps turn tide on defense cuts Newhouse Manufacturers and other defense and business groups won $63 billion in relief from military cuts in the course of two years in December, thanks to the compromise budget bill. The National Association of Manufacturers and senior vice president of policy and government relations Aric Newhouse played a key part. "The unique role we played was transforming the discussion from a defense discussion to a much broader growth, manufacturing, GDP and jobs discussion," Newhouse said. It was a multi-year effort. NAM completed a study in 2012 claiming defense sequestration would cost a million private sector jobs. The study was… Read More