The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday cut the Pentagon's fiscal year 2007 budget request by $9.1 billion to $453.5 billion. The panel voted to allocate $81 billion for procurement, $73 billion for research, development, test and evaluation and $50 billion to pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill must be approved by the full Senate and then reconciled later this summer with a $427.6 billion version of the spending bill passed last month by the House. The Senate bill...
