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Congress

House-Senate NDAA Negotiations Begin

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

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Lawmakers who set Pentagon policy met last night to begin reconciling House and Senate defense bills--likely addressing controversial provisions on military detainees and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter--and hope to craft a final version this or next week. The heads of Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) told reporters yesterday they have talked in recent days with President Barack Obama’s administration about its concerns with a provision related to terrorist detentions in the fiscal year 2012 defense authorization bill the Senate…

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Congress

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