House Armed Services subcommittees will begin the process of marking up the fiscal year 2006 defense authorization bill on May 10, according to a schedule distributed to lawmakers last week by committee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA). "We are presently scheduled for floor consideration of the . . . bill the week of May 23," Hunter writes in an accompanying April 13 memorandum. "Therefore, the attached mark-up schedule is geared toward ensuring we achieve this important scheduled target." According to Hunter,...
