"WASHINGTON -- The House approved a $282.6 billion measure to fund the nation's defense in the coming fiscal year.</br></br>The bill, which passed on a 360-53 vote, would fund all Pentagon operations for the year beginning Oct. 1 except military construction projects, civil defense and nuclear warheads, which are covered by other legislation. A defense-spending bill is pending in the Senate.</br></br>The measure moved through the House with uncommon harmony, as lawmakers avoided fights over arms-control provisions that have embroiled defense-spending bills in previous years. This year, that battle is being waged in the Pentagon authorization bill, which is currently being considered by a House-Senate conference committee. Authorizing legislation defines which programs the government may carry out and sets spending ceilings for those programs, while appropriating legislation funds the programs.</br></br>The House spending bill represents a 1.4% decrease in defense spending from current levels, after inflation is taken into account. The legislation would give the Pentagon $556.6 million less than the Reagan administration had requested and make changes in spending priorities.</br></br>Research into the president's Strategic Defense Initiative, for instance, would be funded at $3.2 billion under the bill, $400 million less than current spending and $1.3 billion less than the administration request. National Security Adviser Colin Powell has said he would advise Mr. Reagan to veto any bill that makes ""crippling"" cuts to the program."
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