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Article: Lightly Amended Senate Defense Authorization Bill Heads To Conference.(Conference news)
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- September 19, 2008
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By Emelie Rutherford
The Senate's Wednesday night passage of a sparsely amended defense authorization bill kicked into high gear House-Senate negotiations over differences between each chamber's version of the legislation for fiscal year 2009, which starts in two weeks.
Because of the unique nature of the conference committee talks--being held as Congress eyes a wrap-up date of Sept. 26, with a Senate bill that was largely untouched on the floor--staff negotiators likely are sticking to big- picture items. That means differences between the two bills over C-17 cargo aircraft, F-22 fighter jets, F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, the Future Combat Systems ...