Defense: FY2012 Budget Request, Authorization and Appropriations

Towell, Pat

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Defense economics;    Defense budgets;    Policy analysis;    Defense appropriations;    Military budgets;   

RP-ID  :  R41861
RP-ID  :  R41861_2011Jun15

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses legislative action that applied the Budget Control Act (BCA)-mandated spending reduction to FY2012 defense funding legislation was taken by the Senate Appropriations Committee on September 7, 2011, when it adopted discretionary spending ceilings for each of its 12 subcommittees that required the Defense Subcommittee to cut $25.9 billion from the President's request for programs funded by the DOD Appropriations bill. On September 15, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported an amended version of the House-passed DOD Appropriations bill (H.R. 2219) that would cut $29.3 billion from the Administration request.