By Jen DiMascio Beyond a boost in the president's initial supplemental request to Congress for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, an amendment released this week includes increases in funding for combat vehicles and aviation--including a request for five new Navy aircraft. Although Congress now has in hand the president's amended Defense Department supplemental request to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, lawmakers still have made no firm indication about when they will take up legislation. Sen. Richard Durbin…
Beyond MRAPs: A Look At Details of the Amended Supplemental
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