
Congress is scheduled to return from its annual August recess Sept. 9 and will waste no time diving into negotiations to flesh out the fiscal year 2020 defense authorization and appropriations bills. The Senate Appropriations Committee announced Sept. 6 it has scheduled its long-awaited subcommittee markup session for the FY ’20 defense appropriations bill on Sept. 10, with a full committee session set for Sept. 12 to consider four spending bills, to include defense. The House Appropriations Committee passed its…