(Bipartisan) Lawmakers want stricter accounting of war costs

[sabra]

http://www.marinetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2440582.php

Lawmakers want stricter accounting of war costs

Three key congressional budget officials are reminding President Bush that Congress expects the 2008 defense budget to include the full costs of continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In a letter sent Thursday, Sens. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., and Kent Conrad, D-N.D. and Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., said using supplemental budgets to cover most of the costs of contingency operations “has skewed deficit projections, minimized the rational tradeoffs in the budget and obscured oversight of war costs.”

Gregg is the current chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. Conrad will replace him Jan. 4 when Congress reconvenes with Democrats in control. Spratt, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, will be the House Budget Committee chairman Jan. 4.

The fact that the three lawmakers agree about how to budget for continuing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is a sign of bipartisan concerns that the $300 billion already spent on the wars through supplemental budgets is not something Congress wants to continue.

[KansDem]

1. Yeah? Where was the Rupub leaders when $$$ was being sent down the Iraq rathole?

With no accountability?

HAHAHA, too bad GOP...the Republic Party had its chance and blew it!

[thingfisher]

2. Does that include the trillions

that Rummy couldn't account for the day before the 911 attacks?!

[KansDem]

3. They should've checked his freezer...

...or under his bed.