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HASC Committee Expects to Bring FY ’20 NDAA Bill to House Floor by Early July

By Vivienne Machi

Monday, June 10th, 2019

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HASC Committee Expects to Bring FY ’20 NDAA Bill to House Floor by Early July

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

As the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) releases its full committee mark for the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), it intends to bring the bill to the House floor just after the July 4th holiday, committee staffers said June 7. The HASC Chairman’s mark was released June 7 and lines up fairly close to the House Appropriations Committee’s defense spending bill for a total of $733 billion, which was passed by the full committee May 21 (Defense…

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