The Senate today approved a $355 billion defense appropriations conference agreement for fiscal year 2003 by a 93-1 vote. The House approved the bill last week and President Bush is expected to sign the measure soon. The Defense Department has been operating under a series of continuing resolutions Congress passed starting Oct. 1, when the new fiscal year began, while action on the appropriations bill continued. The resolutions allow the federal government to keep operating, albeit at the previous fiscal...
