
The House on June 11 passed its $578.6 billion defense spending bill for fiscal year 2016, after members voted to eliminate a prohibition on transferring funds for the Ohio-class replacement submarine to the National Sea Based Deterrence Fund created last year by Congress.The House Armed Services Committee’s authorization bill recommended moving $1.39 billion from Navy accounts to the deterrence fund, but House appropriators in their defense spending bill tried to reverse course, including language stating that “none of the funds…