Senate Committee Cuts ‘Star Wars’ Funding
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved $3.4 billion for President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative for fiscal 1987, rejecting his plea for $4.8 billion for the missile defense effort.
If annual appropriations are kept at that level, as a number of senators and lobbyists predicted, the Administration’s five-year “Star Wars” program would total $15 billion, less than half of the $33 billion the President is seeking for the program through fiscal 1991. The vote for the appropriation was 26 to 1, with committee Chairman Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.) the lone dissenter.
Administration officials have said that full funding of the “Star Wars” program is required to determine whether it is feasible.
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