House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) said Wednesday he was disappointed in the compromise struck by lawmakers in the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill to remove about $10 billion in new weapon systems purchases, but added he his hopeful the incoming Trump administration will send Congress a supplemental defense budget request that will put the money back. Initially, the House version of the bill sought to transfer $18 billion from the Pentagon's Overseas Contingency Operations account to...
