By Emelie Rutherford The Senate is expected to vote today on a temporary federal budget that would run until March 4 and grant the Navy permission to buy Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) from both companies competing to build them. The Pentagon and rest of the government are running under a fiscal year 2011 continuing resolution (CR), passed by the House and Senate late last week, that funds the government at FY '10 levels and expires today. The Senate Appropriations Committee…
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