Obama to seek $537 billion defense budget: Murtha

[Astrad]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will sketch out a robust U.S. military budget for next year totaling $537 billion, a senior Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Wednesday.

Obama is scheduled to release on Thursday an outline of his budget proposal for fiscal 2010, which begins on October 1.

Representative John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who oversees defense spending in the House, told Reuters that "$537 billion will be the base budget" for the Pentagon.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090225/pl_nm/us_obama_budget_pentagon

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I do wonder how a military budget can be 'robust'.

[uponit7771]

1. Good, down from 600 billion...other 64 billion will be spent on health care

[Thrill]

2. Didn't Gates put a gag order on people talking about this?

[Johnyawl]

3. Gates has no power to gag a congressman