Levin Tells Rumsfeld He Wants Budget By June 27

By Thomas Duffy / June 21, 2001 at 5:00 AM
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) told Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today that he wants the Pentagon's fiscal year 2002 amended budget sent to Congress by next Wednesday. Levin told InsideDefense.com later that he wants to hold a hearing on the FY-02 budget June 28, right before Congress breaks for a week in observance of the July 4 holiday. "If the budget gets up here by June 27 and you testify on June 28, we will have three...

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