The defense portion of the fiscal year 2014 spending bill is complete, along with six or seven other of the bill’s 12 sections, while the remaining sections are still under negotiation, senators said Tuesday. Since Congress agreed to a budget bill in late December, setting FY ’14 spending at $1.012 trillion--or about halfway between the House’s and Senate’s budgets--appropriations staffers have been hard at work, trying to not only mesh the House and Senate versions of the 12 spending bills…
