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House, Senate Negotiate Final DoD Bills

Julie Samuel

Friday, December 9th, 2011

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House and Senate lawmakers continued to hash out the final versions of the two Pentagon budget bills yesterday in hopes of wrapping up the delayed measures--which dictate the fate of weapons including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter--in the coming days. The heads of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) said they and their House counterparts have only a handful of matters left to reconcile in their competing policy-setting fiscal year 2012 defense authorization bills and could strike a final deal…

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