WASHINGTON — In an election-year challenge to President Barack Obama, House Republicans are pressing ahead with a defense budget that adds billions of dollars, boosts nuclear weapons programs and slows cost-cutting reductions in the force as the military emerges from two long wars.
House GOP defense bill challenges Obama policy
Thursday, May 17, 2012 | 2:03 p.m. CDT;
updated 2:55 p.m. CDT, Thursday, May 17, 2012
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