Hunter: DOD FY-03 Budget Still Doesn't Meet Requirements

By John Liang / February 8, 2002 at 5:00 AM
Even though the Bush administration's $379 billion fiscal year 2003 defense budget request is the largest in more than a decade, House Armed Services research and development subcommittee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) doesn't think it's enough. "When the press reports that it's the biggest increase in decades, that totally obfuscates the real facts . . . and tends to make people complacent and make people think that this has met the required funding level, but it hasn't," Duncan told reporters...

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