The Defense Department wants to keep select spending accounts, including those funding high-priority weapon system programs like the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle effort, flush with cash in case the new fiscal year begins before a new base budget or war spending package is passed by Congress. Pentagon Comptroller Tina Jonas, in a Sept. 13 communiqué to the House and Senate defense appropriation subcommittees, listed the programs the Defense Department would like permission to keep solvent under any "continuing resolution"...
