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In a rare holiday week vote, members of the U.S. House returned to Washington to override on Monday President Trump's veto of a bill that handles the budget and spending of the Department of Defense.
The National Defense Authorization Act is a $740 billion bill that dates back to 1961 it is one of the few annual bipartisan pieces of legislation left in Congress. House Democrats named this year's NDAA in honor of a Texas Republican, U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry of Clarendon. Thornberry is a former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and will retire at the beginning of the new year.