House Democrats are on board with the Obama administration's recently unveiled defense spending plan for fiscal year 2010, but are wary of the looming budget battles at the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill, a top House Democrat said today. Rep. John Spratt (D-SC), chairman of the House Budget Committee and the No. 2 Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, credited the White House's $663.7 billion defense budget topline for FY-10 as a big step toward reining in recent years...
