Rep. Dicks Looks To Boost Bush Defense Supplemental

By Thomas Duffy / June 1, 2001 at 5:00 AM
Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA), a member of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, will try to increase the size of President Bush's $6.1 billion fiscal year 2001 defense supplemental request when the subcommittee considers it, a Dicks spokesman told InsideDefense.com yesterday. The supplemental appropriations request was submitted to Congress today. The Pentagon sent it to the Office of Management and Budget on May 21 ( DefenseAlert , May 29). The request is for $6.1 billion with $505 million in rescissions bringing...

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