By Emelie Rutherford House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's call to freeze some Pentagon funding received a cool reception from many of her congressional colleagues yesterday. Still, President Barack Obama's exclusion of defense spending from a three-year halt in growing discretionary budget items--which he proposed during his State of the Union address Wednesday night--has fueled additional calls on Capitol Hill to scour the defense budget for savings. Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Politico Wednesday that "it's hard to make the case" to totally exclude…
Pelosi Wants DoD Spending In Freeze; Defense-Savings Talk Ramps Up
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