(Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect comments made by Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jack Reed.) The Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday voted to approve a fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill , though Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI) will oppose it on the grounds that it sidesteps the 2011 Budget Control Act by increasing a Pentagon war funding account that is exempt from BCA spending caps. "The committee voted 22-4 to report the...
