
Congress has passed two versions of the fiscal year 2019 defense spending bill at a faster rate than it has in over a decade, but the road to negotiating a full conference bill before the end of 2018 is not yet clear, analysts said.The Senate on Thursday voted 85-7 to approve the FY’19 Department of Defense (DoD) appropriations bill as amended, two months after the House passed its version of the bill in late June. The $675 billion legislation will…