Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) told Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday the Defense Department would make budgetary history under his watch. "You'll have the largest budget of any department ever in the history of the United States of America -- the largest," Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, told Mattis during a hearing. "I think you have a special burden," the senator continued. "There was a burden when you had too few dollars; there will be...
