
The House Armed Services Committee would withhold half the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s money until the Navy begins planning the refueling and complex overhaul of its aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73), if the seapower and projection forces subcommittee language passes the full committee next week and the full House of Representatives later in May. In a single sentence within the subcommittee’s section of the Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act, chairman Randy Forbes (R-Va.) directs “not…