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WASHINGTON, June 10 (UPI) _ The House has
overwhelmingly passed a bill that allows President Clinton to use defense funds for
any military efforts related to the U.S. mission in Kosovo.
The fiscal 2000 defense authorization bill
passed today 365-58, with an attached Democratic amendment that will keep Clinton
from having to submit a supplemental budget request, as he did to fund the Kosovo
campaign through fiscal 1999.
As the bill was originally drawn up, no
budgeted funds could be used for Kosovo-related military actions, including a peacekeeping
force, after Sept. 30.
Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., who offered the
amendment, said the House needed to give Clinton the latitude to fund the mission
the way he saw fit, otherwise it would send the wrong message to NATO, the ethnic
Albanian refugees in the Balkans and the regime of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Belgrade has accepted NATO's terms for a
peace deal and began the pullout today from Kosovo, a province of Serbia, Yugoslavia's
dominant republic. At least 7,000 U.S. troops will be part of an international peacekeeping
force in the province.
Skelton said the House's actions would determine
"whether we keep that victory or whether we sour it, whether we throw ashes
on it."
Although the amended defense bill passed
overwhelmingly, some Republicans wanted to restrict Clinton's access to Kosovo funds
and refused to mark NATO's achievements.
Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., wanted to prevent
Clinton from filing a supplemental budget request. His amendment to that effect failed
328-97, with more than 100 Republicans joining most Democrats.
Souder argued that U.S. forces have four
more months before the current funding runs out and said, "We have already given
too many taxpayer funds to this ill-conceived operation."
Other Republicans said the U.S. armed forces
have been depleted by the Kosovo mission, deeply affecting U.S. capability to fight
two regional conflicts at once, as policy dictates. The Republicans said Clinton
should not interfere with the restocking of arms and equipment by using those funds
in the Balkans.
About halfway through the day, Clinton wrote
the House a letter that said he would not use military-readiness funds to pay for
the Kosovo operation.
Congressional Democrats praised the White
House for its efforts in keeping the NATO alliance together.
House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt
said, "This is our chance today to be consistent and to be united behind a plan
for peace."
The overall defense authorization bill contains
several amendments related to the report by a special House committee on alleged
Chinese spying. The committee's bipartisan report led to items that aim to shore
up security at Department of Energy nuclear labs.
The $288.8 billion legislation is $8.3 billion
more than the White House requested for defense. It provides funding for weapons,
research and development, operations and maintenance, and other defense-related activities.
It also includes a 4.8 percent pay raise
for military personnel and $3.7 billion for ballistic missile defense programs, which
the House had previously supported in principle.
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