NATION : House OKs Defense Measure
The Democratic-controlled House today approved a $305-billion defense bill that slashes $1.1 billion from President Bush’s spending request for the Strategic Defense Initiative in fiscal 1990.
By a vote of 236 to 172, lawmakers approved legislation that provides much of Bush’s request for land-based nuclear missiles and restores some funds for two conventional-arms programs the President sought to kill.
The bill provides $3.8 billion for SDI, also known as “Star Wars”--about $279 million less than the amount spent in fiscal 1989. The spending level represents the first reduction in the SDI program in its six-year history.
The legislation must still be approved by the Senate.
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