The Republican-controlled Senate passed a budget resolution Tuesday -- without a single Democrat's vote -- that would skirt sequestration spending caps by injecting an additional $38 billion into the Pentagon's overseas contingency operations fund. The House last week passed the non-binding resolution, which authorizes $499 billion for base Pentagon spending in accordance with the spending caps of the 2011 Budget Control Act, but adds $38 billion to the president's $50 billion OCO request because the contingency account is exempt from...
