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Article: House, Senate Near Final Agreement On 2006 Defense Authorization Bill.
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- December 13, 2005
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By George Cahlink
House and Senate negotiators continued to hammer out their differences on the 2006 defense authorization bill with a final vote on the massive military bill expected by the end of the week.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said in remarks on the Senate floor yesterday afternoon that Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman (SASC) John Warner (R-Va.) "has completed work on the defense authorization conference report, and that may also be around here mid-week" for a vote.
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the ranking minority member on SASC, told reporters a short time later that a deal on defense authorization had not ...