House Rejects, OKs 12 MXs
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
The House voted 359 to 67 today to approve a bill freezing Pentagon spending after it first voted to eliminate $1.7 billion to buy a dozen MX missiles but later reversed itself.
The measure to delete funds for the MX, the nuclear weapon that has been the center of a long-running Capitol Hill fight, first passed on a 211-208 vote but was later defeated by a 214-210 margin. The House bill would appropriate most of a $292-billion Pentagon budget for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
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