The Nation - News from Oct. 4, 1985
The House Appropriations Defense subcommittee approved a defense budget bill that would freeze Pentagon spending at last year’s level of $292 billion. The bill was approved by voice vote of the 13-member committee after three days of closed deliberations, according to congressional sources. The spending package now goes to the Appropriations Committee and will eventually have to be approved by the full House. It calls for appropriating $275 billion for the Pentagon in fiscal 1986, which began Tuesday.
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