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House-Senate Lawmakers Mull Only $85 Million Cut In European BMD

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Monday, November 5th, 2007

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House and Senate lawmakers are considering cutting only $85 million from a $310 million funding request by President Bush for the planned European Ground-based Midcourse missile Defense (GMD) program, a House source said. Published reports that the lawmakers intend to cut all $310 million and zero out the European GMD program are an incorrect interpretation of remarks by Rep. John Murtha (D- Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee defense subcommittee, the source said. It is correct that Murtha said…

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