
The Senate Armed Services Committee plans to hold individual subcommittee markups and a full committee markup of the fiscal year 2021 defense authorization bill June 8-10, the committee said May 26. Since the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic began spreading across the globe earlier this year, observers worried that the social distancing guidelines that have altered normal working routines would delay lawmakers’ progress on the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). However, the leaders of the armed services committees have expressed their…