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U.S. Senate Set to Approve Fiscal 2004 Defense Authorization Bill
The U.S. Senate is expected to approve soon the completed fiscal 2004 defense authorization bill, with a vote expected as early as today, according to the New York Times (see GSN, Nov. 11).
The bill was completed by House-Senate negotiators and approved by the full House of Representatives last week. The bill contains the entire Bush administration request of $451 million for the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, which assists efforts to destroy WMD stockpiles in the former Soviet Union. The House had proposed cutting $29 million in funding from the program’s efforts to assist in chemical weapons disposal (David Firestone, New York Times, Nov. 12).
The bill would also authorize more than $9 billion in missile defense spending, the Associated Press reported (Ken Guggenheim, Associated Press, Nov. 12).
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