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AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Defense authorization stalled over disabled vets' benefits
October 18, 2002 Conferees trying to finish the fiscal 2003 Defense authorization bill remained deadlocked Thursday over disabled veterans' benefits, leaving Congress to break until after the elections with a fiscal 2003 Defense appropriations bill, but no authorization. The two chambers were close, having both agreed on spending figures of $393 billion-within President ...
Claims of progress in Everglades restoration disputed
September 13, 2002 Key parties with stakes in the massive $8 billion Florida Everglades restoration project weighed in Friday before Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., one of the plan's architects. At an oversight hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, witnesses for the Army Corps of Engineers and the Interior Department cited ...
Coast Guard may get budget boost in 2004
September 3, 2002 The Bush administration may seek $500 million more for the Coast Guard in fiscal year 2004 even after the record-setting fiscal 2003 numbers being hammered out for the service on Capitol Hill. A spokesman for House Transportation and Infrastructure Commitee Chairman Don Young, R-Alaska, said the White House made "a ...
Supplemental bill stocked with non-terror items
August 16, 2002 Highway builders, needy college students, fishermen and a tiny town in the mountains of North Carolina are among those who will benefit from the 2002 supplemental spending bill that Congress passed and President Bush signed in the name of responding to terror-despite Bush's rejection this week of a big chunk ...
Amendment bars offshore firms from defense contracts
August 1, 2002 Outrage over corporate misbehavior overwhelmed even a Senate discussion of war financing Wednesday, as senators approved an amendment to the 2003 Defense appropriations bill to bar U.S. companies that move to offshore tax havens from participating in defense contracts. Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, argued the provision would violate the General ...
Homeland bill ignites race among national labs
July 24, 2002 Any of dozens of government-owned national laboratories could compete to become the prestigious headquarters lab for the new Homeland Security Department under compromise language in the homeland security bill to be debated on the House floor beginning Thursday. But Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, which the Bush administration first wanted as the ...
Senate panel clears $355 billion Defense bill
July 19, 2002 The Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday unanimously approved a $355.4 billion Defense spending bill, which emphasized military modernization and the needs of service members and their families. The bill included 4.1 percent across-the-board pay raise for those serving in uniform. The bipartisan bill (H.R. 5010) was approved 29-to-0 in a package ...
Government Reform chairman calls for visa office move
July 10, 2002 House Government Reform Committee Chairman Dan Burton, R-Ind., has thrown his weight behind shifting authority to issue visas to the proposed Homeland Security Department and out of its historic home in the State Department. Burton's stand is a departure from President Bush's proposal, which would keep the visa office at ...
House panel examines terrorism response scenarios
June 27, 2002 Bush administration witnesses tried their level best to argue that the new Homeland Security Department will be focused, coherent and fast-moving, but legislators on both sides of the aisle sounded skeptical Wednesday, during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the administration's bill. "Let's spin the scene of a tank ...
House panel approves Defense spending bill
June 25, 2002 The House Appropriations Committee raced through the fiscal 2003 Defense spending bill Monday night at the breakneck speed of $18.6 billion per minute. A grand total of $354.7 billion was approved for the upcoming year just 19 minutes after Appropriations Chairman C.W. (Bill) Young, R-Fla., gaveled the meeting to order. ...
