A bipartisan group of five senior House lawmakers yesterday told Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) they oppose his plan to fold the $12.8 billion fiscal year 2000 supplemental spending bill into the FY-01 defense appropriations bill, arguing such a strategy will negative impact U.S. military readiness. The spending allocations listed in the supplemental "must be addressed immediately, and not in conjunction with the fiscal year 2001 appropriations process," the congressmen said in an April 5 letter to Lott. "Deferring...
