House to vote on $895 billion NDAA after deal with Democrats

The House is set to consider the National Defense Authorization Act this week in an attempt to push through one of Congress’s highest priority bills before it expires later this month and lawmakers leave town until Jan. 3.

Bipartisan congressional leadership released legislative text of the NDAA over the weekend, outlining more than 1,800 pages of spending priorities for the Defense Department’s budget and teeing it up for a vote in the House later this week. But first, the bill must make it through the House Rules Committee, where it could face opposition from some of the Republican conference’s most conservative members.