The Senate Appropriations Committee has cut the $93.4 million targeted for Guam construction in the administration's fiscal year 2013 defense-spending request, demanding a revised strategy for relocating 8,500 Marines and their families, according to military-construction report language approved today. By a vote of 30-0, the panel today approved report language that would defer funding for additional military construction "related to the relocation of U.S. Marines to Guam" until the Defense Department receives a "revised and comprehensive basing plan" encompassing the...
