R. 1530: Congressional action on the FY96 Defense authorization bill comes at a propitious moment.
Briefly, talks have stalemated, along with discussions on you-know-what-else, for an FAA re-authorization bill.
This provision was attached to the FY2003 Intelligence Authorization bill at the initiative of Sen.
Actually, the defense budget and the defense authorization bill, for a long time, has not really been a partisan issue.
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The defense authorization bill flopped with a 240-156 vote, 24 short of the two-thirds majority required to override a veto.
Finally, lest we forget, the House of Representatives is in the midst of its long-awaited debate on the FY1991 Defense authorization bill.
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The White House has already threatened to veto the Defense Authorization Bill if the habeas corpus issue is added as an amendment.
The United States Senate is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a motion to proceed to debate on the annual defense authorization bill.
"Mr. Bush surely remembers the therapeutic effect achieved when, at his urging, then-President Reagan vetoed the FY1989 Defense authorization bill, " said Frank J.
And our concerns about that provision within the defense authorization bill were well known as it was being developed in our consultations with the authors.
The United States Senate will shortly consider the FY1991 defense authorization bill, S. 2884, reported out of the Senate Armed Services Committee on 20 July 1990.
Today, the House will approve a defense authorization bill with considerable potential to disrupt the Arrow program by shifting theater defense responsibilities from SDIO to the Army.
He voted in favor of every defense authorization bill that came up during the dozen years he served, while opposing extension of Medicare benefits to prescription drugs.
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He has succeeded, working with members of both parties, to deliver a defense authorization bill that supports our national security, even in the face of these imposed cuts.
The Senate will begin to debate an annual defense authorization bill Monday that promises to be a vehicle for lawmakers to express their discontent with the war in Iraq.
The summary offers powerful arguments for preserving the option to procure additional B-2s as recommended by the Senate Armed Services Committee in its action on the FY1995 Defense authorization bill.
In the latter days of the Reagan Administration in 1988, the President vetoed the authorization bill, basically because it was putting a cap on how we could spend resources on space-based interceptors.
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Gephardt said he would support an effort by Rep. Tim Roemer, D-Indiana, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, to attach language to an upcoming intelligence authorization bill in the House creating the commission.
For this reason, we joined you in strongly supporting the Fiscal Year 1996 Defense Authorization Bill and its statutory requirement that all the United States be protected against missile threats by the year 2003.
More than 40 votes short of those necessary for passage, Republican leaders were forced to pull the conference report on the fiscal 1998-99 State Department authorization bill (HR1757 -- S Rept 105-432) from the House schedule March 13 and postpone action until March 18.
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R. 1579, "The Free Trade in Ideas Act" -- a free-standing bill which he succeeded in getting affixed (on an 8-7 vote) to the State Department authorization bill when it was marked up by the House Foreign Affairs International Operations Subcommittee on 26 May 1993.
In recent weeks, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to sharply reduce the amounts requested for the rail-mobile MX and the road-mobile Midgetman missile, for the B-2 "Stealth" bomber and the advanced cruise missile, and for the Strategic Defense Initiative in the FY1990 Defense authorization bill.
"The authorization bill will not have an impact on this Friday's layoff, but it will result in adjustments to our plans for the timing and magnitude of future workforce reductions, " said Tracy Yates of United Space Alliance, the primary contractor being affected by the layoffs Friday.
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We understand that the Senate may shortly be asked to consider an amendment to the FY 1999 Defense Authorization bill that would have the effect of creating a statutory requirement for the U.S. military to cease all use of anti-personnel landmines (APLs) by 2006, if not before.
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The Michigan House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill that would prohibit state cooperation with any federal attempt to implement Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act.
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