NDAA DELAYED: A backroom dispute over jurisdiction has held up the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act in the House. The $716 billion must-pass policy bill was expected to be on the chamber floor today for a final vote. But the House Ways and Means Committee filed a “blue slip” over a provision in the bill Tuesday evening, sending it back to the House and Senate conference committee for a revision, said Rep. Pete Sessions, the chairman of the House Rules Committee.

“There is agreement that this bill will go back to the conference, make the changes that will be necessary, resign the report, resend it back,” Sessions said. The Rules Committee, which tees up bills for floor votes, plans to take up the bill again today and keep the NDAA on a “glide path,” Sessions said. “We believe it is important to get this done. We do not anticipate any other problems other than the ones that have been spoken about. I would assume that we will be back here tomorrow.”