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Highlights of Congressional Action in 2007 on National Security
On February 4, the President sent the annual military budget to Congress.
The budget totals $515.4 billion for Pentagon activities. However,adding
funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (estimated by Defense
Secretary Robert Gates at roughly $170 billion) plus the nuclear weapons
portion of the Department of Energy budget, the total exceeds $700 billion. The
Senate and House Budget Committees will take the first legislative action on
the budget.
Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) Program Administration Request: $88.8
million for the Department of Energy; $30 million for the Department of
Defense, for a total of $118.8 million
Final Action: $0 for the Department of Energy; $15 million for the
Department of Defense
Reprocessing Nuclear Waste
Administration Request: $405 million
Final Action: $179 million (as part of Department of Energy
Appropriations)
Total Funding for Nonproliferation Programs (including programs funded
through the Defense Department, State Department, and Department of Energy)
Administration Request: 3.36 billion. Final Action: 3.683 billion.
Notable Threat Reduction Programs Included Within the Above Totals
Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar Program)
Administration Request: $348 million
Final Action: $428 million
Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI)
Administration Request: $115.5 million
Final Action: $195 million (as part of Department of Energy
appropriations)
International Nuclear Material Protection & Cooperation
Administration Request: $371 million
Final Action: $603.2 million (as part of Department of Energy appropriations)
Space Test Bed (i.e. space-based missile defense) Administration Request: $10
million
Missile Defense Programs
Administration Request: $10.3 billion (includes missile defense, research
and development, and procurement)
Final Action: $9.9 billion ($85 million was ultimately cut from the $310
million requested to begin deployment of anti-missile interceptors in
Poland and an associated radar in the
Czech Republic)
Conventional Trident Modification Program (to equip Trident II
submarine-launched long-range missiles with non-nuclear warheads)
Administration Request: $175 million Final Action: $0 ($100 million was
appropriated solely for alternatives to the Conventional Trident Modification
Program)
Democracy Promotion in Iran (i.e. regime change slush fund)
Administration Request: $108.71 million. Final Action: $60 million (as part of
Foreign Operations Appropriations) Total Defense Spending (excluding the
conduct of ongoing military
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan)
Administration Request: $452.2 billion. Final Action: $448.7 billion.
Iraq and Afghanistan War Cost: Administration Request: $196 billion in
Supplemental Appropriations Bill
Final Action thus far: $87 billion (including $70 billion for general
military operations and nearly $17 billion for Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected
Vehicles).
"The troops will march in; the crowds will cheer; and in four days everyone
will have forgotten. Then we will be told that we have to send in more troops.
It is like taking a drink. The effect wears off and you have to take another."
-John F. Kennedy-
Khalilah Sabra, MAS-Freedom, North Carolina
*(VIP) Voting Really Is Power!
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