For those steeped in the cement-dense rules of the legislative process who enjoy parliamentary intrigue, power plays, and shifting alliances all entangled in the nation’s must-pass defense budget, the United States House of Representatives is putting together a Republican-produced summer thriller.
For everyone else, brace for a series of hotly contested floor clashes on dozens—perhaps, hundreds—of controversial “culture war” amendments attached to the proposed $886.3 billion Fiscal Year 2024 defense budget in House debates likely to rage until the August recess.
The House Rules Committee early July 12 in a 9-4 partisan vote agreed to send 290 proposed amendments to the defense budget, referred to as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), to the House for adoption….