The White House has threatened a veto despite solid bipartisan support in the House and the Senate for the sweeping policy measure that spends $1.7 billion more than President Obama requested to cover the cost of ships, aircraft, weapons and military personnel.
The remaining $33 million was requested to cover the president's travels, as well as trips taken by Vice President Mike Pence and costs of protecting visiting heads of state.
Funds requested to cover neuropsychiatric care totaled $925,674 (Table 1).
Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, said no budget request to cover a war would be made to Congress before military action began.
Two Republican senators, Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Pat Roberts of Kansas, urged the Bush administration last week to deny New York's request to cover children with family incomes up to four times the poverty level.
Very few foreign journalists have received accreditation, despite some 300 requests to cover the elections late last month, a government spokesman told the pro-government newspaper The Sunday Mail, according to the committee.
North Korea, which rarely allows foreign journalists into the country anyway, has rejected all requests to cover the meetings except for 50 South Korean journalists who were allowed after protracted negotiations to visit.
Very few foreign journalists received accreditation, though there were some 300 requests to cover last weekend's election, a government spokesman told the pro-government newspaper The Sunday Mail, according to the committee.
While preparing for an address on the economy last year, the university's event staff honored the White House advance staff's request to cover some Georgetown University signage and symbols to provide a standard backdrop of American flags, consistent with other policy speeches.
US President Barack Obama had put additional monies in the Federal Year 2011 budget request to cover such delays.
He sent official correspondence from a personal address, and appeared to deliberately delay public-records requests to cover his tracks before facing a Senate confirmation hearing.
