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Defense Bill Largely Untouched As Senate Adjourns For Two Weeks

The Senate adjourned for the Thanksgiving holiday without making any significant progress on the defense authorization bill, leaving just one week next month for the Senate to pass a bill, confer with the House and then pass the compromise bill out of both chambers.  The defense bill got caught up in a partisan argument on Wednesday over how many amendments would be allowed, and then derailed on Thursday after Senate Democrats voted for a rules change that would allow most…

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