$1-Billion Pentagon Renovation Rejected
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WASHINGTON — The chairman of a Senate panel on military construction said Monday that a Bush Administration request for $1.1 billion to renovate the Pentagon is “out of the question.”
Sen. Jim Sasser (D-Tenn.) acknowledged that the 47-year-old building is in need of repair but said the Administration’s call for $1.1 billion over seven years would be difficult to heed in a time of shrinking budgets.
“The military construction bill is going to get smaller, not larger,” Sasser told Pentagon officials.
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