
The Senate kicked off debate of the fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill Wednesday, and Democrats are already fighting a mechanism that would allow the Defense Department to bypass spending limits set in the 2011 Budget Control Act.The National Defense Authorization Act recommends the full $612 billion requested in the president’s budget, but to keep funding levels under BCA caps, $38 billion from the base budget was transferred to the wartime spending account.Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I), ranking member of the…