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.
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.
In a letter to Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen, the President has promised to find money to stop the erosion.
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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There's providing money for the I-35 bridge span collapsed in Minnesota, there's authorizing that FISA court that approves spy wire taps, a bill to fund the entire Department of Defense for the next year, and also a massive energy bill to make new efficient standards for electricity and buildings.
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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Perry served as Bill Clinton's secretary of defense and Republican Simpson served in the Senate from 1979 to 1997.
The assault on the health care bill is not a defense of liberty.
So in 2010, the budget will be trimmed 11 percent, according to Bill Carr, deputy undersecretary of defense for military personnel.
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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.
Sam Brownback joined McCain in offering a defense of the bill, and that was qualified.
In truth, you can far more effectively pursue your defense of the Bill of Rights without being stupid or needlessly inflammatory.
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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.
Prior to the Hagan amendment, the Senate approved another amendment, offered by Senator Mark Udall of Colorado, to repeal section 313 of the annual Defense appropriations bill.
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And former President Bill Clinton, who signed the Defense of Marriage Act, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post last week saying he now believes the law is unconstitutional.
Last night, the House of Representatives failed to override the Defense bill veto.
The second item the political system prefers to target as a bill-payer in defense downturns is the actual production of weapons, because political impacts tend to be localized even when the programs employ thousands of workers.
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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So Boxer wrote a bill - and Congress passed it - that ordered the secretary of defense to set up this taskforce to figure out how to get things better.
While in Congress, he supported a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, voted for the Defense of Marriage Act and voted for a bill prohibiting gay couples in Washington from adopting.
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.
Many lawmakers believe that if Clinton had vetoed the defense budget bill, he would have killed any chance of getting Congress to approve the Bosnia deployment.
The House Armed Services Committee is expected to include a version of their legislation in next year's sweeping 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 above quote from Bill Sardi is part of a long, rambling, often contradictory and bizarre defense of Dipak Das and resveratrol (reprinted below).
"It seems clear that members of the committee have decided that the legislation must reflect the fact that the vast majority of those who made submissions on the bill called for a public interest defense to be inserted, along with other important changes, " Editors' Forum Chairman Mondli Makhanya and Dawes said in a joint statement.
His bill was constitutionally sensitive and therefore friendlier to defense than to the federal departments of Energy and Education.
The defense authorization bill flopped with a 240-156 vote, 24 short of the two-thirds majority required to override a veto.
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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