(AP) Donna Cassata - The House Armed Services Committee, which begins crafting a fiscal 2013 defense budget next week, plans on boosting money for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system by $680 million, according to a congressional aide. The system is designed to intercept short-range rockets and mortars. The money would be in addition to the $205 million that the Obama administration and Congress agreed to in a special request in the 2011 budget and would cover several years, through fiscal 2015.
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