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Did Democrats just rescue defense spending caps?

By Travis J. Tritten
Published September 25, 2017 4:01am ET
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Did Democrats just rescue defense spending caps?
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., took to the Senate floor last week still stinging from political defeat. "What did the Democrats do? They threw it away. They took a perfectly good bipartisan opportunity to repeal these automatic spending cuts, and they threw it away," he ranted. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) | J. Scott Applewhite

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., took to the Senate floor last week still stinging from political defeat.

The “cowardly” Democrats had just scuttled the “last, best chance in years” to finally free the defense budget from sequestration.

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Congress Defense Spending Department of Defense (Department of War) House Armed Services Committee John McCain NDAA Senate Armed Services Committee Tim Kaine Tom Cotton Travis J. Tritten