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HASC Rejects Missile Defense Adds In Defense Bill Markup

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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) marked up the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill yesterday, spending most of the daylight hours debating unsuccessful Republican attempts to restore missile-defense funding the Obama administration wants to reduce. The panel also concurred with Defense Secretary Robert Gates's plan to scrap the manned-ground vehicle portion of the Future Combat System (FCS) Army modernization program, yet reduced the size of a cut to the administration's funding request that was proposed last…

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