The administration is also proposing $81 billion in supplemental spending for Iraq and Afghanistan, which includes money for weapons systems.

Those figures do not include supplemental spending or money for nuclear weapons, a program managed by the Department of Energy.

In past recessions, Japanese politicians have approved huge supplemental spending on public works projects.

He said that in some cases the supplemental spending could be used to buy newer equipment or to speed other improvements in military capabilities.

The Pentagon faces a rebuff on another request, for supplemental spending of $2.8 billion in the current fiscal year.

The Bush administration has asked for a total of $92 billion in supplemental spending this year for those efforts.

In the budget for this fiscal year, the Government put in supplemental spending of $23.2 billion on public projects.

Since 9/11, the Pentagon budget and supplemental spending on Iraq have grown to over $500 billion a year.

Wisconsin's Congressional delegation members worked to ensure that funds were included in the supplemental spending...

But the process is far more considered and transparent than the circuses that govern supplemental spending.