The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a $318 billion bill to fund US military operations.
The bill boosts pay for troops but slightly cutting the Bush administration's funding request for a national missile defense program.
On a 408-6 vote, the House backed a fiscal 2002 defense spending bill that includes a provision to lease and convert about 100 Boeing 767s to replace the Air Force's aging fleet of air refueling tankers.
The measure provides at least a five per cent pay raise for troops, the largest raise in two decades, and gives President Bush $7.9 billion for the national missile defense program, $400 million less than he sought.
Lawmakers agreed to cut $441 million from Bush's missile defense request, mostly from research programs that have so far shown few results, and shift the funds to other defense priorities.
The most controversial provision in the bill was the plan to replace the Air Force's worn-out, 40-year-old KC-135 air tankers, put to heavy use during the military campaign in Afghanistan, with converted Boeing 767s.
Top officials at Boeing Co lobbied lawmakers feverishly for the $22 billion program, which requires the Air Force to convert the planes to tankers and give them back to Boeing at the end of a 10-year lease.
The bill also includes a provision to block US cooperation with a proposed International Criminal Court in the Netherlands, which Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, co-sponsor of the provision, has described as a "permanent kangaroo court."