Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA) is expecting to make headway this week on the $6.7 billion defense supplemental appropriations bill he introduced Feb. 13 when House appropriators begin meeting to organize for the 107th Congress. Dicks met with House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bill Young (R-FL) and defense subcommittee Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-CA) last week to discuss the fiscal year 2001 spending package, which covers military pay, housing, higher fuel costs, health care cost increases and military readiness issues such as aircraft...
