House appropriators have proposed granting the Pentagon a rare exception to standard rules guiding stopgap spending bills, carving out special permission for one high-priority, weapon-system program each for the Navy and Air Force and two for the Army in the name of sparing unnecessary disarray caused by temporarily extending the limits on new-start projects and production increases. On Dec. 6, the House Appropriations Committee published draft spending legislation to fund the federal government under a continuing resolution from Dec. 10...
