The ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee plans to propose a different fiscal year 2016 budget than what the GOP has crafted, including a new spending blueprint for the Defense Department that rejects a nearly $90 billion overseas contingency operations fund being supported by House appropriators. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) released a statement Thursday laying out her intentions shortly before the Senate Appropriations Committee released its versions of FY-16 bills dealing with military construction and veterans affairs and energy...
