The four military services have unfunded requirements totaling $12.2 billion in fiscal year 2005, according to documents unveiled today by Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), the House Armed Services Committee ranking member. That sum would pay for initiatives left out of President Bush's $401.7 billion FY-05 request for the Defense Department, delivered to Congress last month. In past years, lawmakers have used the service's lists of unfunded priorities as guidelines for increasing the amount of money allotted to DOD in authorization...
