{"id":517924,"date":"2010-04-06T13:01:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f24\/text-letter-president-speaker-house-regarding-fy-2010-pro-41874\/"},"modified":"2010-04-06T13:01:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:01:24","slug":"text-of-a-letter-from-the-president-to-the-speaker-of-the-house-regarding-fy-2010-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/517924","title":{"rendered":"Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House Regarding FY 2010 Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>04.05.10 03:13 PM<\/p>\n<p>Dear Madam Speaker:<\/p>\n<p>I ask the Congress to consider the enclosed amendment to Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 proposals in my FY 2011 Budget. In particular, I am requesting authority to allow the Department of Defense to transfer up to $50 million of funds that will expire in FY 2010 to the Department of Transportation&#8217;s Maritime Administration for improvements to the Port of Guam. Modernization of the Port is a critical prerequisite for the military construction program supporting the realignment of U.S. Marine Corps forces from Japan to Guam, a part of the overall U.S. strategy for military forces in the Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, this transmittal contains a FY 2010 proposal for the Legislative Branch. As a matter of comity between branches, appropriations requests of the Legislative Branch are transmitted without change.<\/p>\n<p>The details of this amendment are set forth in the enclosed letter from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nBARACK OBAMA<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/text-a-letter-president-speaker-house-regarding-fy-2010-proposals-fy-2011-budget\" >White House.gov Press Office Feed<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04.05.10 03:13 PM Dear Madam Speaker: I ask the Congress to consider the enclosed amendment to Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 proposals in my FY 2011 Budget. In particular, I am requesting authority to allow the Department of Defense to transfer up to $50 million of funds that will expire in FY 2010 to the Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}