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Amendments to OCO, Stryker Funding Emerge as Senate Takes Up Defense Bill

Valerie Insinna

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015

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Amendments to OCO, Stryker Funding Emerge as Senate Takes Up Defense Bill

Stryker Photo: U.S. Army

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…

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