The House Appropriations defense subcommittee wants to rescind $3 billion in funding previously allocated to Pentagon weapons-modernization accounts, cuts that would be imposed as part of a fiscal year 2014 defense spending bill that would also trim the Pentagon's request for new weapons spending by $1.8 billion. According to a draft of the bill released today by the subcommittee, the panel would require the forfeiture of prior-year funds -- including hundreds of billions of FY-13 dollars appropriated in April --...