Democrats in the US Congress were unable to limit the financing of programs about

Democrats at a meeting of the House of Representatives of the US Congress tried on Thursday to ban financing for the construction of bases in Europe, but their initiative did not receive the necessary number of votes.

The requirement to completely delete from the US military budget for 2008 expenses of $ 150 million for the placement of radar missile defense systems in the Czech Republic were included in the text of the Democrats on reducing costs of $ dollars. However, the amendment did not pass after 299 congressmen voted against it at 127 "For", RIA Novosti reports.

From the current chamber considered by the chamber of the defense budget, at the stage of passage through the relevant committee on armed forces, the amount of $ 160 million was excluded for the construction of the base of ten missiles-interceptors in Poland. In the initial request of the US President for 2008, an amount of 310 million was indicated for the creation of bases in Poland and the Czech Republic.

The Armed Forces Committee reduced the general financing of the Pentagon Agency for Missile Defense by 764 million responsible for the programs about the Pentagon Agency.

In a rejected amendment, the author of which was a congressman-democrat John Terni, it was proposed to reduce the budget of the missile defense agency by another 1 billion 84 million 400 thousand dollars by completely terminating the program for creating bases in Europe, but also a number of other well-known programs.

In particular, it was proposed to completely exclude from the military budget for 2008 expenses in the amount of 298.8 million for the development of laser about air -based, 177.5 million for the development of a kinetic interceptor (Kinetic Energy Interceptor), 229.1 million for the development Kill Vehicle), 170 million for the construction of the third site for missiles of the US Air Force "Fort Grille" (Alaska), 59 million to work on the creation of the STSS spacecraft (Space Tracking and Survellance System).

During the discussion of the amendment of Terni, the chairman of the Armed Forces Committee, the Congressman-Democrat Aik Skeleton, said that it could not support it, since it almost completely stops financing “long-term pro”, which, in his opinion, is incorrect.

At the same time, he recalled that the Democrats have already significantly reduced allocations on about 2008 compared to the initial request of Bush.