Could someone please explain re the $150 billion the Senate

[cali]

voted to authorize for Iraq and Afganistan? I know it was part of a far larger Bill, the Defence Authorization Bill, an that said funds do not get transferred to the military coffers until they vote on further legislation. What I want to know is this: Are these funds separate from bush's supplemental request of $190 billion, or part of that request?

[WCGreen]

1. That's billion....

[cali]

2. yep. thanks for pointing that out. n/t

[babylonsister]

3. I don't know the answer, but it's not a done deal yet:

maybe the dim one will veto them all.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/01/AR2007100101006.html



While the Senate policy bill authorizes the money to be spent, it does not guarantee it; Bush will have to wait until Congress passes a separate appropriations bill before war funds are transferred to military coffers.

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n February, Bush requested more than $140 billion for the war, and is expected to ask for another $42 billion to cover costs in the 2008 budget year, which began Monday. The Senate's defense policy bill authorizes Bush's initial request, plus an additional $23 billion for the purchase of bomb-resistent vehicles.

In addition to war money, the Senate's defense policy bill authorizes more than a half trillion dollars in annual military programs, including such big-ticket items as $10.1 billion for missile defense.

Republicans predict the bill is on track to be vetoed by President Bush because it includes hate-crimes legislation by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. The White House has said Kennedy's proposal, which would let federal law enforcement help states prosecute attacks on gays, is unnecessary.

The House passed its version of the defense authorization bill in May by a 397-27 vote. That $646 billion measure would trim hundreds of millions of dollars from some weapons modernization programs and use the money instead to aid troops in combat.

The House bill has drawn a veto threat from the White House because of provisions insisting the military rely heavily on American-made products and proposed changes to the Pentagon's personnel policies.

[cali]

4. Thanks, sister

that article is helpful but I'm still confused about the separate upcoming supplemental.

[cali]

5. Anyone?

[radfringe]

6. sure

spending $150 billion over there in a surge, so we don't have to spend $32 billion over here through SCHIP

[cali]

7. Nope. that doesn't answer the question

I posed: Is this amount in addition to the upcoming bushco supplemental request of $190 billion, or is it part of it? Also, dems in the Congress voted overwhelmingly for SCHIP.