| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| House Democrats: Please pass a bipartisan defense policy bill |
| Rick Berger
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| 发表日期 | 2019-07-09
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Hell hath no fury like a lawmaker betrayed. This week, the House will take up the crucial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Congress’ primary instrument to oversee the U.S. military. Though the NDAA has passed for 58 straight years, partisan political choices threaten to end that streak.
The Democratic House passed out of committee the National Defense Authorization Act by a 33-24 vote, an abnormally close vote for a bill that garnered roughly 60 votes every year since 2000. Anemic support for the NDAA in committee derives from Chairman Adam Smith’s decision to eschew the committee’s tradition of bipartisanship in its drafting and markup process. The bill contained several “poison pill” provisions Republicans could not vote for, including a $733 billion topline that represents flat spending, cuts to previously bipartisan conventional missile and nuclear weapons and programs, and prohibitions on nuclear weapons publicly identified as redlines for GOP members. Rather than seeking a bipartisan compromise approach on these issues—as the committee did on the Space Force question—committee Democrats chose to go it alone.
Naturally, Republican House Armed Services Committee members—Ranking Member Thornberry in particular — felt betrayed. Thornberry and his fellow Republicans had kept overtly partisan politics out of the bill since taking the House in 2010. As evidence, most committee NDAA votes featured only one or two “No” votes over the past eight years, except for one year in which five Democrats voted against the bill.
Read the full article at Breaking Defense. |
| 主题 | Foreign and Defense Policy
; Defense
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| 标签 | NDAA
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/house-democrats-pass-bipartisan-defense-policy-bill/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/266097
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