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Defense Bill Less Than Desired, but Bush Will Take It
foxnews.com ^
| Wednesday, July 31, 2002
| Associated Press
Posted on 07/31/2002 4:29:47 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:34:17 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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I'm confused. A couple days ago, I posted another article:
Senate Clears Emergency Funds, Sends to Bush which led me to think that Congress had passed the Defense money and it was on the way to Bush.
But this article makes it sound like the Senate is still considering it.
To: ThePythonicCow
Yippee!....a 4.1 pay raise....
To: ThePythonicCow
PAthetic.
WE are at War and Congress refuses to appropriate.
The military needs a 5% raise and then wages indexed to inflation.
We are also seriously in need of replacing older jets and ships in our inventory.
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posted on
07/31/2002 5:41:53 PM PDT
by
rmlew
To: ThePythonicCow
Ok - I am not confused anymore. A little poking around on Thomas (thomas.loc.gov) shows these two bills:
- H.R. 4775 2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery From and Response To Terrorist Attacks on the United States
- H.R. 5010 Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.
HR4775 was a $30 (approx.) Billion supplemental spending bill for the Fiscal Year ending this August. It has passed both houses and was sent to the President on July 26. It contains the several page addition by Daschle
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Forest Service: WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT for the purpose:
- to authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture (in this section referred to as the `Secretary') to undertake actions to address promptly the risk of fire and insect infestation; and
- to designate an addition to the existing Black Elk Wilderness Area in the Black Hills National Forest.
HR5010 is next years Defense Appropriations (Fiscal Year 2003, beginning Sept 2002), for $355 Billion. It was reported out from the Senate Appropriations Committee on July 18, 2002, and is presumably the bill now being considered on the Senate floor. I don't believe that it has gone to Conference yet for resolution with the similar bill that the House passed June 27, 2002.
To: ThePythonicCow
Sorry about that Daschle link in the previous post. I hadn't tried linking to something from the Thomas web site before -- seems that there is no way to get a link that is good for more than an hour.
oh well
To see it, bring up the full text of the final version of HR4775 on Thomas and search for "Dakota" or "Black Forest".
To: ThePythonicCow
Good work. Thanks for the directions to this thread!
I am still so frosted about Daschle I can't see straight!
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posted on
07/31/2002 10:22:51 PM PDT
by
justshe
To: justshe
I am still so frosted about Daschle I can't see straight!
Poor guy -- finally does something sensible, like defying the Sierra Club to get some forests cleaned out, and he can't even get that
right.
Guess he's a hopeless leftist.
To: justshe; Lady In Blue; hoosierpearl
To: ThePythonicCow
Correction - to conference - not to the President, yet.
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