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Rep. Targets ‘War Slush Fund’

Julie Samuel

Monday, June 27th, 2011

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House members will try to kill a special fund for emergency war-related spending in the annual Pentagon spending bill when the House debates it next month. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said she will offer an amendment to the fiscal year 2012 defense appropriations bill to “transfer the $5 billion Pentagon war slush fund to a deficit reduction.” She is referring to an “Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund” that President Barack Obama requested and the House Appropriations Committee approved in the…

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