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Lawmakers are “on track” to unveil the fiscal year 2018 omnibus appropriations conference report sometime during the week of March 12-16, a spokeswoman for the House Appropriations Committee said March 9.Negotiators have been working for weeks to combine 12 individual appropriations bills for defense and other programs into a single package. They were expected to continue their efforts over the March 10-11 weekend. The House-passed FY 2018 defense appropriations bill would provide $659.2 billion for defense. The Senate Appropriations Committee proposed…
