Rep. Akin Tells Navy Secretary, Get Your Homework Done On Time - Or No Dough -- Aol Defense
WASHINGTON: Congress orders up innumerable reports, and the Pentagon routinely delivers them months late, but the Navy's 30-year shipbuilding plan is one report that actually matters. That's why Rep. Todd Akin, seapower chairman on the House Armed Services Committee, will offer an amendment to the defense authorization bill at Wednesday's mark-up session that will demand that the Navy Secretary start turning the 30-year plan in on time -- or lose access to a small but highly sensitive spending account called the "triple E" fund.
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