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Posted by: Alan Dillingham Friday, April 10, 2009 2:58 PM

 

The White House sent a $83.4 billion supplemental appropriations bill to Congress last night to cover  costs associated with operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the remainder of FY2009.  A summary of the bill can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/press_releases/SummaryoftheFiscalYear2009SupplementalAppropriationsRequest/

The Defense Department indicates that it will need the funding by Memorial Day. 

The supplemental bill will delay the FY2010 earmarking process, probably until early June.  This is because the House and Senate Appropriations Committee staff, that would be processing the FY2010 earmark requests from lawmakers, will have its hands full until Memorial Day trying to get the Iraq/Afghanistan supplemental through Congress.
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