House Slashes Nuclear Weapons Budget Request
Kucia, Christine, Arms Control Today
CITING A "FLAWED budget process," the House of Representatives July 18 overwhelmingly approved a fiscal year 2004 appropriations bill that slashes President George W. Bush's request for funds needed to conduct earth-penetrating nuclear weapons research, build a new plutonium pit- manufacturing facility, and shorten the potential time frame for conducting a nuclear test to 18 months.
The 377-26 vote on the Energy and Water Appropriations bill reflected a stinging challenge to the president's proposed spending level of $8.8 billion to fund Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear weapons programs. Representative David Hobson (R-Ohio), chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy …
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Publication information:
Article title: House Slashes Nuclear Weapons Budget Request.
Contributors: Kucia, Christine - Author.
Magazine title: Arms Control Today.
Volume: 33.
Issue: 7
Publication date: September 2003.
Page number: 37.
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