Congress needs to provide the remaining $108.1 billion requested in this fiscal year's emergency supplemental war funding bill before Memorial Day to avoid furlough notice warnings, White House budget chief Jim Nussle told a Senate panel this afternoon. However, lawmakers expressed reluctance to approve the bill at the expense of domestic priorities. "Congress needs to fund our troops by Memorial Day," Nussle, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in his opening statement at today's Senate Appropriations...
