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Senators seek to shutter overseas military bases
April 29, 2003 Senate action on a $1 billion construction budget for overseas military bases will be delayed until "as late in the year as possible" while the Pentagon reviews which Cold War-era installations in western Europe remain useful, Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said Tuesday. Her announcement came ...
Senator may revisit ban on military domestic police power
April 21, 2003 Senate Armed Services Chairman John Warner, R-Va., may hold hearings to determine if the Reconstruction-era Posse Comitatus law should be revised to give the military new domestic policing powers, even though the Bush administration has backed away from its call for a review and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is opposed ...
GAO to broadly probe Iraq contracts
April 17, 2003 The General Accounting Office will launch a broad-scale probe into methods and secrecy that surrounds awarding of contracts to rebuild Iraq, Comptroller General David Walker said Thursday in an interview with National Journal Group reporters. But Walker said he had rejected as inappropriately partisan the specific request from House Government ...
Cheney's former firm paid fines on prior contracts
April 16, 2003 One of the companies selected for a lucrative no-bid contract to help rebuild Iraq paid a $2 million fine after being accused of fraud during previous Defense Department work and was criticized by the General Accounting Office for cost overruns on another contract, according to government documents. The company, KBR-the ...
Criticism grows of no-bid work for Iraq reconstruction
April 16, 2003 The U.S. Agency for International Development's decision to sidestep open bidding for eight contracts to help rebuild Iraq should be investigated by the the General Accounting Office and AID's inspector general, congressional Democrats say. Using no-bid contracts for the costly rebuilding process allows the administration to reward friendly companies, prevents ...
Pentagon officials caution Senate panel on Iraq rebuilding
April 11, 2003 U.S. military successes in Iraq will not necessarily translate to a quick homecoming for American troops, military leaders cautioned members of the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday. "Obviously, there's still a great deal of work left to do in Iraq," both in wrapping up fighting and in setting the stage ...
Senate committee expands powers of EPA ombudsman
April 10, 2003 Over strong objections by the Bush administration, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved legislation Wednesday giving broad new powers to the Environmental Protection Agency's ombudsman. The legislation (S. 515), reported by voice vote without debate, would allow the ombudsman to issue subpoenas while investigating complaints or grievances. The ...
National Guard anti-terror teams unfunded in Bush budget
April 1, 2003 The absence of funding for a critical National Guard program in President Bush's fiscal 2004 budget will leave 19 states without full-time military teams to respond to chemical attacks or other war-related emergencies unless members of Congress carve money out of the president's supplemental request. Democrats in both chambers are ...
Bush demands quick action on war supplemental
March 25, 2003 President Bush Tuesday called on Congress to move "quickly and responsibly" in considering the fiscal 2003 war supplemental over the next few weeks. "The supplemental should not be viewed as an opportunity to add spending that is unrelated, unwise and unnecessary," said Bush, outlining his request during remarks at the ...
White House, lawmakers discuss supplemental request
March 24, 2003 Congressional leaders and appropriators headed to the White House Monday afternoon for a meeting with President Bush and White House staff about the contents of the administration's imminent fiscal 2003 supplemental spending request to pay for the military campaign in Iraq. White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer would not say ...
