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| Senate Squanders Military O&M Budget On Pork |
| 2009-10-18 |
| Pork-barrel spending is hardly new in Washington. But Winslow Wheeler, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Center for Defense Information, which conducted a study on this year's defense budget, said that "in 30 years on Capitol Hill, I never saw Congress mangle the defense budget as badly as this year." Congress cut the administration's request for operations and maintenance, or O&M, by a total of about $3 billion. Instead of spending for training, repairs, spare parts, supplies, weapons, ammunition and the like, it allocated $2.8 billion for 778 different projects designed to enhance individual legislators' prestige, bring money to home districts or pay off campaign contributors. |
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