Senate tees up final vote next week on defense policy bill

Published June 14, 2018 7:05pm ET



The Senate voted Thursday to bring debate to a close on its $716 billion annual defense policy bill and tee up the mammoth measure for final passage next week.

A week of wrangling over whether to vote on a measure pushed by Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, prohibiting indefinite detention of U.S. terror suspects derailed amendment votes on the National Defense Authorization Act. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., blocked the measure, as he has for the past six years.

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