BATTLELINES DRAWN: The House Armed Services Committee continues the work of nailing down just what will be funded in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, amid increased grumbling from Republicans that Democrats are running roughshod over the bipartisan tradition of defense funding. The full committee mark-up is set for next week, but already the battlelines are being drawn over nuclear weapons policy.

“For all my years on the House Armed Services Committee, subcommittee markups have been bipartisan and representative of the comity this committee has enjoyed,” said Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, top Republican on the strategic forces subcommittee yesterday. “This year’s mark represents a significant deviation from that tradition of bipartisanship.”