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UPDATED: 11:57, May 04, 2005
US House, Senate agree on $82 bln war spending bill
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The US House and Senate conferees agreed Tuesday to an 82-billion-US-dollar supplemental spending bill for the wars and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A vote on the bill is expected in the House on Thursday and in the Senate next week.

Most of the money, 75.9 billion dollars, is slated for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, nearly 1 billion dollars more than what President George W. Bush wanted.

The bill also contains 4.2 billion dollars in other international spending, including 592 million dollars to build a new US Embassy in Baghdad; 680 million dollars for peacekeeping in Sudan, Haiti, and elsewhere; 1.7 billion dollars for anti-terror and anti-narcotic programs in Afghanistan; more than 250 million dollars for economic assistance in the Palestinian territories andIsrael; and 250 million dollars in military assistance for Pakistan and Jordan.

The bill, which provides 656 million dollars for tsunami relief,and 635 million for increased border security and enforcement in the United States, also includes provisions to prevent states from issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants and stiffen asylum laws.

According to the Congressional Research Service, the Congress has previously approved 228 billion dollars for US military and reconstruction operations in Iraq and Afghanistan since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The latest bill would push the overall cost of combat and reconstruction efforts in the two countries, and the Pentagon's anti-terrorism operations worldwide, past 300 billion dollars.


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