The Defense Department is petitioning Congress for permission to transfer up to $200 million to the State Department to pay for civilian-led reconstruction and stabilization missions that might pop up in fiscal year 2006. The Pentagon's show of support for the State Department's fledgling Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization comes after House appropriators indicated a willingness to provide only $7.7 million of a $124 million State Department request for the new office in 2006. "We're in the...
