Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is picking a fight with the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee over what she claims is a thinly veiled attempt to circumvent a House earmark ban that prevents members from directing budget additions to the House defense authorization bill to specific localities and defense companies. In a May 26 letter to committee chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) and Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA), McCaskill said the process used in the committee's mark-up of the fiscal...
