
Defense Policy Bill. Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, hopes a House-Senate conference committee can complete the fiscal year 2018 defense authorization bill by the end of October, but he acknowledges that his goal is ambitious, especially since each chamber plans to take a week off this month. Lawmakers still have a host of issues to resolve, including what to do about a controversial House proposal to create a space corps in the Air Force…