Although Congress mostly resisted the temptation to tinker with the budget details, it did give some specific projects a boost beyond the requested amount.
"This is something that we grappled with because there frequently the need to provide assistance and guidance to law enforcement agencies across the country that often stretched beyond our ability to meet the requests," Tony West, a former top Justice Department official, said in an interview.
The maker of branded products for the military, law enforcement and personnel safety markets attributed the action to accelerated production of M1114 Up-Armored High Mobility Multi Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), or Humvees, "beyond contractual requirements at the request of the U.S. Army".
Many Republicans joined in voting that an additional $814 million be spent on natural-resources programs beyond the budget requested by the president.
It would provide nearly all of the $65.1 billion sought by the White House for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in some other areas it calls for increases beyond the administration request, including spending for body armor for members of the American military in Iraq.
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There a strategic planning team of former "bomber mafia" members (himself, George, Kuter, and War Plans Group chief Lt. Col. Kenneth N. Walker), put together an estimate for President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the numbers of aircraft and personnel needed to win a war against the Axis Powers, well beyond the scope requested of it by the War Plans Division of the General Staff.
