The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2015 on Friday, sending the bill to the president’s desk for the 53rd year in a row. The House passed the bill Dec. 4, and despite a last-minute effort from retiring Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to push the bill back into the committee instead of coming to the floor for final passage, the bill passed the Senate 89-11. (Defense Daily, Dec. 4). Earlier in the week, as lawmakers debated…
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