The Senate adjourned for a two-week Thanksgiving recess Thursday without completing work on an annual defense policy bill that members on both sides of the aisle deemed crucial to national security.

Republican senators blocked a procedural motion to end debate on the National Defense Authorization Act, arguing that they had not been given a chance to offer amendments to the bill.

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