Congress will return to Washington after Labor Day to some unfinished business, including completing the negotiations on this year’s defense policy bill and figuring out a way to move forward a stalled spending bill for the Pentagon.

Lawmakers may have spent the better part of the summer away from Washington, but staffers have been working hard to sort through some of the smaller differences between the House and Senate defense policy bills.

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