House, Senate Chairmen Tell Rumsfeld Congress is Running Out Of Time On FY-02 Budget

By Thomas Duffy / June 8, 2001 at 5:00 AM
Congress is coming dangerously close to running out of time to review the Bush administration's fiscal year 2002 defense budget before the current fiscal year ends, the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees told Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday. The legislative calendar shows less than 46 days until the end of the fiscal year for the House and 53 days in the Senate, Rumsfeld was told in a June 7 letter . "Assuming we...

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