House, Senate finalize annual defense policy bill
By Rebecca Kheel - 11/29/16 05:30 PM EST
The final version of an annual defense policy bill jettisons a number of controversial provisions and would authorize $3.2 billion more than President Obama requested.
Senior staffers from the House and Senate Armed Services committees in a Tuesday background briefing detailed the end result of months of negotiations to reconcile the two chambers’ versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
The bill would authorize a total of $618.7 billion. Of that, $59.5 would be used for a war fund known as the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account.
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