And that's why we have passed a defense bill that eliminates some of the waste and inefficiency in our defense process -- reforms that will better protect our nation, better protect our troops, and save taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.
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So Stanford is now suing the same entity (the U.S. government) that is footing the bill for his defense.
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As a result, the likelihood is that a defense bill deficient in important respects will emerge from conference committee.
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Last night, the House of Representatives failed to override the Defense bill veto.
In a letter to Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen, the President has promised to find money to stop the erosion.
Lawmakers have taken some steps to -- apparently to amend the defense bill to address concerns the President has about terrorism suspects.
They have the legal authority to cut off funding for the Libya operation, and the defense bill is coming up in a couple weeks.
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.
And I'm pleased to say that when it comes to the defense bill I'm about to sign into law, we've taken some important steps towards that goal.
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He said Kerry and Edwards later voted against money for the war, but did not mention that he threatened to veto a version of the defense bill that Kerry supported because it proposed to finance the expenditures by eliminating tax cuts for wealthy Americans.
White House reactions to that set off more reactions from the Senate, and last week the Senate added an amendment to their annual defense bill in which they called on the president to give them regular reports on progress towards making 2006 the transition year when the Iraqis take over their own defense.
Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, from the stimulus bill as long as Republicans allow Democrats to bring it up in the Defense Appropriations bill.
He had his senator (at the time Bill Cohen, who became Bill Clinton's secretary of defense) tack a rider onto a bill putting Trenholm's nonprofit, Squirrel Point Lighthouse Associates, in charge.
He and others have determined that that's not part of that program and if that money is contained in the bill, the Secretary of Defense and advisors here, as I said yesterday, would recommend that the President veto that bill, yes.
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The GOP also plans to block several other Iraq-related amendments to a defense policy bill.
Senate Democrats are using debate on the annual defense policy bill to push for policy changes in Iraq.
Congress simply will not vote down the defense appropriations bill just because there is a performance tax attached.
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The assault on the health care bill is not a defense of liberty.
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.
The House Armed Services Committee is expected to include a version of their legislation in next year's sweeping defense policy bill.
Those types of concerns are what prompted a heated debate last December as lawmakers worked to approve a defense policy bill.
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.
Clinton vetoed the bill authorizing funds for defense programs on December 28.
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.
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