Bush signs large defense spending bill

Thursday, October 24, 2002

WASHINGTON -- President Bush signed into law Wednesday the biggest military spending increase since Ronald Reagan's administration -- a $355.5 billion package giving the wartime Pentagon "every resource, every weapon and every tool they need."

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