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SASC Adds Funds For Planes, Tanks, Submarine in DoD Bill

Friday, May 25th, 2012

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A Senate panel approved legislation yesterday that demands information from the Obama administration on potential budget cuts and reverses the Pentagon’s plans for everything from retiring Air National Guard planes to scaling back tank and submarine production. The Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) $525 billion fiscal year 2013 defense authorization bill includes roughly 150 changes from the defense budget President Barack Obama unveiled in February, Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) told reporters yesterday. The Democrat-led committee’s bill, though, nearly heeds the…

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