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President Bush Tuesday signed into law a $531.4 billion defense authorization bill for fiscal 2009 that authorizes a 3.9 percent military pay raise and also includes $68.6 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The final defense bill, which passed both chambers in late September, had wide bipartisan support in Congress and was named for retiring House Armed Services ranking member Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., who served as chairman of the committee from 2003 through 2005.