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Home » House Approves 2% Boost for DOD Construction 7/26/2004
The House passed a 2005 spending bill that would increase Dept. of Defense construction spending a modest 2%, to $10 billion. But on the House floor, a provision was stripped out that would have expanded the Pentagon's program of using private developers to build housing for military families.
The "mil con" measure, approved July 22 on a 420-1 vote, hikes direct appropriations for DOD family housing by 51%, to $1.6 billion and boosts spending on other defense construction, such as barracks, hospitals and piers, by 6%, to $5.3 billion.