Senator Threatens To Block Supplemental Unless Clinton Details Allies' Contribution

By Thomas Duffy / February 9, 2000 at 5:00 AM
Sen. John Warner (R-VA), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said yesterday he would block the approval of the Clinton administration's $2 billion supplemental request unless the administration provides Congress detailed information on allied contributions to the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. During a hearing on the Defense Department's fiscal year 2001 budget, Warner told Defense Secretary William Cohen, "there appears to be no end in sight" for U.S. involvement in Bosnia, and that Kosovo operations seem headed in the...

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