House committee begins defense policy bill process

By Tony Bertuca / July 2, 2021 at 1:39 PM

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) and Ranking Member Mike Rogers (R-AL) today introduced the "by request" version of the fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill, a procedural measure that is traditionally the first step of the legislative process for the bill.

The bill, H.R. 4350, contains legislative proposals submitted by the Defense Department, which will be struck and replaced with subcommittee and full committee proposals.

The subcommittee mark-up schedule was released earlier this month.

The full committee is slated to debate the bill Sept. 1.

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