House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) and Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA) differ on many defense policy issues, but have reached bipartisan agreement that the congressional budget process is "broken" and that the Pentagon's acquisition system is too resistant to reform. "Every single option for how this fiscal nightmare ends is politically impossible," Smith said. "So what happens? I don't know. It'll be interesting to watch." Thornberry and Smith, who spoke Wednesday at a New America event in...
