Despite a Senate amendment to its fiscal year 2003 defense authorization bill that could restore an $814 million cut in missile defense funding, President Bush's top defense advisers would continue to recommend that he veto the bill, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a House committee today. The Bush administration had issued a statement June 14 that said the president's advisers would recommend a veto of the bill based primarily on the missile defense cut. The Senate yesterday added two...
