United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense
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The U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense is one of thirteen subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, tasked with reviewing budget requests, holding hearings on such matters, and drafting legislation allocating federal funds for discretionary defense spending.
This process takes place on a regular basis, annually (concerning the federal budget each fiscal year), and as often as necessary for supplemental spending bills (covering unforseen or emergency expenses not previously budgeted). Appropriations must adhere to the limits imposed by their corresponding Budget resolution, which is drafted by an analogous Senate Budget committee. At the end of a lengthy and deliberate drafting process, a spending plan is produced by the Defense Subcommittee.
The fruits of their labor are then passed to the full Appropriations Committee for further review, and upon approval of a final draft, sent to the Senate floor.
[edit] Members, 109th United States Congress
The eighteen members of this subcommittee are:
- Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Chairman
- Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi)
- Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania)
- Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico)
- Kit Bond (R-Missouri)
- Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky)
- Dick Shelby (R-Alabama)
- Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire)
- Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Texas)
- Conrad Burns (R-Montana)
- Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Ranking Member
- Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia)
- Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)
- Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
- Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota)
- Richard Durbin (D-Illinois)
- Harry Reid (D-Nevada)
- Dianne Feinstein (D-California)