Senate Appropriations Committee Allocations for Defense (302B allocations)
by John Isaacs [contact information]
September 8, 2011
The Senate Appropriations Committee recommended level of spending on defense is a freeze at last year’s enacted or approved level, a reduction of $26 billion from the President’s request and $17 billion from the House-approved level.
This starts getting into real money, although other appropriations have deeper reductions (notably State Foreign Operations).
The final numbers will be worked out in a later Senate-House conference committee, either specifically on Defense or on an Omnibus Appropriations Bill encompassing many or all appropriations bills.
According to CQ Today, the Senate Armed Services Committee will now look for about $20 billion in reductions in their previously-approved level. The Committee may meet next week to work those out.
In the meantime, there is no schedule for Senate floor action on the Fiscal Year 2012 Defense Authorization Bill or Senate Appropriations Committee action on the Fiscal Year 2012 Defense Appropriations Bill. CQ Today suggests that the Senate may not get around to the Authorization Bill until the end of the year.
Click here for the chart on the Senate Appropriations Committee Allocations for Defense
John Isaacs 202-546-0795 ext. 2222 jdi@armscontrolcenter.org
John Isaacs is the Executive Director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation where his work focuses on national security issues in Congress, Iraq, missile defense, and nuclear weapons. Isaacs has published articles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Nuclear Times, Arms Control Today, American Journal of Public Health, and Technology Review.