House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said committee members were pushing back against nearly all the tough choices the Pentagon had to make in its fiscal year 2015 budget request, and picking fights over each program this year would result in having to raid readiness accounts to stay within the $521-billion topline–though readiness subcommittee chairman Rob Wittman (R-Va.) vowed he wouldn’t let his account be the pay-for for everyone else’s wish lists. Smith praised the Pentagon for…
