Congress is working to pass a defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011 instead of continuing to fund the Pentagon under stopgap measures, the head of a key House defense committee said today. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) told reporters today that House leaders have promised him that a defense appropriations bill would “be done very shortly.” The Pentagon, like the rest of the federal government, has been operating under continuing resolutions for the past six...
