Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner (R-VA) and five other Republican senators have written President Bush to oppose tens of billions of dollars in possible cuts to Pentagon weapon modernization accounts. The lawmakers, in a Dec. 16 letter, sought to influence executive branch budget deliberations about the shape of the Pentagon's fiscal year 2007 budget request and its spending plan through fiscal year 2011. The impetus for the letter, the lawmakers said, were press accounts -- the first of...
