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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report 2011-05-03

VOL. 238 NO. 23 May 03, 2011

Funding and Policy

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Budget Effects Of Bin Laden’s Death May Not Be Immediate

May 03, 2011
The death of Osama bin Laden may prompt calls to quicken the pace of withdrawal from Afghanistan and to magnify the push to cut defense dollars, but those are not coming from the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) told reporters May 2 that the Al Qaeda leader’s death had changed little on either front. “My position is we need to find savings in the defense budget,” Levin said during a conference call. “The need was there before. The need is still there after.”