$1.067 billion: Total cost of Omnibus bill 2,009: Total pages of the bill $573 billion: Total cost of Pentagon budget $607 billion: Total cost of national defense budget category 050, Pentagon plus Department of Energy weapons programs plus the Overseas Contingency Operations account The bill includes $514 billion for the base Pentagon budget. It also includes $74 […]
Huge Omnibus Appropriations Package: An Unwieldy Mess
Washington, D.C. — Council for a Livable World, a Washington D.C. group focused on national security issues, today criticized the huge $1.067 trillion Omnibus Appropriations Bill filed late last evening as “an unwieldy mess.” The bill is 2,009 pages long and filled with special interest provisions and last minute deals on riders that most Members of […]
December 9 Pentagon Budget Refresher: Omnibus Spending Bill…What’s the Hold Up?
NEW INFORMATION IN ITALICS Defense Appropriations and the Omnibus Spending Bill: Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown on September 30 when it passed a short-term continuing resolution spending bill. Congress is up against the clock once again: if an extension or compromise is not made by this weekend (technically December 11), large parts of the […]
Council: Front and Center – December 5
An update on arms control, national security, and politics from Council for a Livable World and the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation What’s News: Iran’s Nuclear ‘Dirty Laundry’ Laid Out for World to See As an early step in implementing the Iran nuclear agreement reached this summer, the international nuclear watchdog organization has completed its […]
Board Member & ‘People’s Lobbyist’ David Cohen Dies at 79
David Cohen, lobbyist for ‘public,’ rather than ‘special,’ interests, dies at 79 By Emily Langer for the Washington Post The cause was a heart attack, said his son, Aaron Cohen.“I have never heard a parent say, ‘I want my child to be a lobbyist,’ ” Mr. Cohen once quipped, reflecting on the dim view commonly held of […]
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