Democrats in the Senate are following through on their promise to block the fiscal year 2016 defense appropriations bill as a tactic to force high-level discussions with the Republican majority to end sequestration, but the defense authorization bill was allowed to pass the upper chamber and now heads to a conference committee with the House. The White House has threatened to veto both bills because they feature inflated overseas contingency operations (OCO) accounts that are not subject to sequestration caps,...
