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A portion of the House debate on an amendment striking funding for F-22 fighter jets from the defense spending bill was shown.

The House and Senate Appropriations Committee held a conference meeting on the Fiscal Year 2009 supplemental budget for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Pandemic Flu. Members debated various …

Representative Murtha, chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, talked about the costs of the Iraq war, including personnel and equipment. He also discussed his recent f…

Representatives Murhta and Obey spoke to reporters about claims made by the Bush administration and Department of Defense that they would be forced to make critical cuts if supplemental spen…

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey, Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha, and Rules Committee Vice Chairman James McGovern spoke to the press conference ab…

House and Senate conferees met to negotiate compromise language on a supplemental spending bill for military operations in Iraq. They agreed on language that provided funding, but set a goal…

Defense Department officials testified about fiscal year 2008 department budget requests, military operations and readiness, personnel issues, and future planning priorities. They also talke…

The House Appropriations Committee marked up the fiscal year 2007 supplemental appropriations for Iraq. Several members presented proposed amendments and revisions to the emergency spending …

Democratic House leaders talked about the emergency appropriations legislation and their plans to attach conditions to the spending that would set benchmarks for Iraqi security that the admi…

The House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee held a hearing on the U.S. Army portion of the proposed fiscal year 2007 war supplemental appropriations. Witnesses testified about operations i…

Representative Mirtha, the lead House Democrat on Defense Spending and first Vietnam combat veteran elected to Congress, was interviewed about the war in Iraq and other defense matters. He d…

Secretary Rumsfeld and other Defense Department officials testified about the department’s proposed fiscal year 2005 budget of $68.9 billion. Other topics included a lack of intelligence per…

The House Appropriations Committee approved a $13 billion bill to provide funding for military action in Yugoslavia, as well as a military pay raise and other defense items.

The House of Representatives took up the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill and the Fiscal Year 1992 Intelligence Authorizations Bill.

The House agreed to H.Res. 171, electing Representative Johnson of Texas to the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, and to the Committee on Small Business. The House passed H.R…

The House passed H.R. 3012 to make appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1990. Funding was included for the Departments plan to close obsolet…

The House concluded debate and passed H.R. 2461, the national defense bill, to authorize Dept. of Defense appropriations for fiscal years 1990 and 1991.

The House began consideration of amendments to H.R. 2461, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1990 and 1991, but came to no resolution.

The House met to debate appropriations for the Defense Department and members questioned the continued functionality of some weapon systems. Note: This is an incomplete program.