$680 billion defense budget in the works

October 16th, 2009, by danielle@allmilitary.com

On October 8, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a $680 billion defense budget that included $27.9 billion for military health care. The following is a synopsis of the bill from the Library of Congress Web site.

“H.R.2647
Title: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, to provide special pays and allowances to certain members of the Armed Forces, expand concurrent receipt of military retirement and VA disability benefits to disabled military retirees, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Skelton, Ike [MO-4] (by request) (introduced 6/2/2009) Cosponsors (1)
Latest Major Action: 10/8/2009 Conference report agreed to in House. Status: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by recorded vote: 281 - 146 (Roll no. 770).”

Bookmark to:

Add '$680 billion defense budget in the works' to Del.icio.us

Add '$680 billion defense budget in the works' to digg

Add '$680 billion defense budget in the works' to FURL

Add '$680 billion defense budget in the works' to reddit

Add '$680 billion defense budget in the works' to Technorati

Add '$680 billion defense budget in the works' to Yahoo My Web

Add '$680 billion defense budget in the works' to Stumble Upon

Add '$680 billion defense budget in the works' to Google Bookmarks

Add '$680 billion defense budget in the works' to Spurl

Add '$680 billion defense budget in the works' to Blogmarks

Add '$680 billion defense budget in the works' to Bloglines

Posted in Uncategorized |

AllMilitary.com

Categories

$680 billion defense budget in the works

Contributors

Julie Norton

Claire

The Crawfish

Flag Gazer

Doug Kirk