Armed with a larger-than-expected federal budget surplus, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-AK) yesterday said he will try to pump more money into the Defense Department's budget this year and pay for some of the programs on the military services' unfunded priorities lists. Stevens told InsideDefense.com there is about $14 billion more in the surplus than was predicted last fall. "We have not been given permission to use (the money), we just intend to try to use it. It...