Senators might use President Bush’s fiscal 2005 supplemental spending request as a vehicle to curb predatory sales of life insurance and other financial products at military installations around the globe.

During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday, Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said they hope to use the anticipated $80 billion supplemental to reverse language inserted into the fiscal 2005 Defense appropriations bill that prevents the Pentagon from amending its regulations governing commercial insurance sales at military bases.

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