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Budget

Lawmakers Push Back on HASC’s Crusier Layup Plan

Valerie Insinna

Thursday, April 23rd, 2015

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The House Armed Services Committee proposal for modernizing the Navy’s Ticonderoga-class fleet will likely be a point of contention when the full committee meets next week to amend the National Defense Authorization Act, the ranking Democrat on the seapower and projection forces subcommittee said.An amendment to the current language will be presented in full committee for wider debate on April 29, Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) told reporters April 23 after the subcommittee’s markup of the NDAA (H.R. 1735). Instead of moving…

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Congress

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