Senate Democrats are offering an amendment to the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill that would increase domestic spending by $18 billion to balance a similar increase sought by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that would boost the Pentagon's overseas contingency operations budget. Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) defended the amendment on the Senate floor Wednesday as an effort to align the Democrats' efforts to lift the 2011 Budget Control Act caps for non-defense spending with GOP desires to increase the defense...
