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Senate approves unanimous 345 billion defense bill
The Senate passed a 345 billion defense spending package 99 to 0, authorizing Defense and Energy Department military programs for fiscal 2002. It boosts missile defense and terrorism funding, raises salaries, and allows base closures in 2003, with tensions over energy and prison provisions resolved. Sen. Strom Thurmond fainted and was hospitalized.
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Washington
Senate
Defense Department
Energy Department
Sen
Carl Levin
Armed Services Committee
Bush
John Warner
R-Va
Armed Services
Strom Thurmond
R.S.C
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
House
Levin
John McCain
R-Ariz
New York
World Trade Center
Pentagon
McCain
Trent Lott
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Alaska
James Inhofe
R-Okla
Phil Gramm
R-Texas
Defense
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
Congress