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War Supplemental Bill May Emerge Next Week, Memorial Day Deadline Eyed

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Thursday, March 19th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon will likely send its proposed $75.5 billion supplemental war-funding bill for the remainder of this fiscal year to Congress next week and wants it passed by Memorial Day, a senior defense official said yesterday. Congressional aides are eyeing Monday as the day the highly-anticipated supplemental request arrives on Capitol Hill. Robert Hale, the Obama administration's newly confirmed Pentagon comptroller, told the House Budget Committee yesterday "we're working with OMB (the White House's Office of Management and…

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