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Panels Poised To Start Defense Deliberations

Julie Samuel

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

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Two powerful congressional committees will start their work crafting the Pentagon’s budget next week. The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC)--the only of the four panels that writes the defense budget that has not done so yet for fiscal year 2012--said yesterday it will meet Sept. 7 to set the so-called 302(b) allocations for the 12 federal appropriations bills, including defense. Also next week, the 12 members of the new congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, charged with identifying up to…

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