The House Armed Services Committee yesterday approved President Bush's $7.3 billion request for a slew of Pentagon programs for combating terrorism. The panel finished marking up its version of the fiscal year 2003 defense authorization bill last night. Under the rubric of fighting terrorism, the panel approved funding for chemical-biological protection, the Defense Department's Cooperative Threat Reduction program and the Energy Department's nonproliferation programs. More specifically, the committee inserted $578 million in the authorization bill for research and development of...
