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Senate Removes Pay-For-Delay Provision from Appropriations Bill

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier this month, the House of Representatives passed the "2010 Supplemental Appropriations Act" (H.R. 4899) after tacking an additional $22.8 billion onto the Senate version of the bill, which called for $45.5 billion in discretionary funding for FY 2010. The bill would provide, inter alia, $37.12 billion for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, $13 billion in mandatory funding for Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange, $5.1 billion for FEMA disaster relief, $2.9 billion for Haiti, $162 million for the Gulf Coast oil spill, and over $600 million for other domestic needs. The extra $22.8 billion...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 30, 2010 (boomark / email).