The House Budget Committee will agree to the Senate's higher level of defense spending for fiscal year 2001 -- about $3 billion more than the House approved -- and the reestablishment of a so-called firewall between defense and non-defense spending, a committee spokesman told InsideDefense.com. Both sides are nearing the end of a conference on the FY-01 budget resolution, and a Senate Budget Committee spokeswoman said the conference report should be filed by late this afternoon. When Senate Budget Committee...
