After spending weeks dispatching senior leaders to Capitol Hill to make the case for $30 billion in additional fiscal 2017 defense spending, the Pentagon is now worried partisan gridlock might leave it without any new FY-17 funding. The chiefs of the military services, which sent letters to Congress detailing the troubling impacts of a yearlong stopgap spending measure known as a "continuing resolution," are slated to testify before the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday. A yearlong CR would freeze federal...
