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Thornberry Sees Bipartisan Support For HASC’s NDAA, Previews Potential Amendments

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, June 29th, 2020

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Thornberry Sees Bipartisan Support For HASC’s NDAA, Previews Potential Amendments

Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), House Armed Services Committee ranking member

The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee anticipates bipartisan support for the panel’s version of the next defense authorization bill, while adding he wants to see provisions for the DoD’s chief management officer and troop movement from Germany addressed at Wednesday’s markup hearing. “I am hopeful, I would say very hopeful, that at the end of the full committee markup this week that there will be widespread bipartisan support for the product,” Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), the HASC…

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