CSPAN 2018 Defense Programs July 13, 2017
Act back in 2011, it doesnt change those but it does a couple things to get around them. The pentagon has a separate war account, the overseas Contingency Operation fund, known more commonly as oco. Billion. Extra 10 the bill has 621 billion in defense spending that would bust through that cap. The short of it is, while there are some mechanisms are used to get around that, lawmakers have to rewrite those caps later on. This came out of the House Armed Services committee after some 13 hours of debate. 601 vote out of that committee. One of the key provisions . Conor there was some pretty bipar...