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SASC Chair Prepping ‘Skinny’ NDAA in Event of Failure to Approve Conference Bill

SASC Chair Prepping ‘Skinny’ NDAA in Event of Failure to Approve Conference Bill
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The leader of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) plans to introduce a stripped-down version of the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) next week as a last-ditch effort to push colleagues to reach consensus on a number of partisan issues while the conference bill flounders. “This is sincere, but this is only in the event that we don’t pass a bill,” Inhofe told two reporters, including Defense Daily, Oct. 23 on Capitol Hill. He plans to introduce…

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