House appropriators matched the Administration's $404.1 million request for the Department of Defense's Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program last week, providing steady support for a program that received a significant boost from Congressional authorizers earlierrnthis summer. The House Appropriations Committee passed its version of the Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Appropriations Act July 22, including no guidance on the landmark threat reduction program in the report accompanying the bill.
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