
The House Armed Services Committee's top Republican has filed an amendment to boost the topline of the panel’s version of the next defense policy bill by $25 billion. The amendment from Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala,), the HASC ranking member, would match GOP calls for at least three to five percent annual defense spending growth, and include increasing procurement spending in the bill by $9.8 billion. “From China to Russia to Iran to North Korea to the threat of global terrorism…