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Article: SASC Chairman Vows To Pass Defense Authorization Bill.
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- November 19, 2007
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By Jen DiMascio
Despite a recent stalemate in conference negotiations on a bill to authorize defense spending for fiscal year 2008, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said last week the bill would move forward next month.
"We're going to get a defense authorization bill passed this year. We have to. We should. We're going to. So it's a necessity, and it's the right thing to do," Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said.
The breakdown in negotiations has occurred over the inclusion of hate crimes legislation that has passed in the House and that the president previously threatened to veto.
Including the language in the ...