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Committee sends $574B defense spending bill to full Senate

By Jacqueline Klimas
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Committee sends $574B defense spending bill to full Senate

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved the fiscal 2017 defense spending bill, sending it to the full Senate for consideration.

The bill, which includes $515.9 billion in the base budget and $58.6 billion in an overseas contingency operations account, was sent to the Senate by a unanimous 30-0 vote.

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