By Taxpayers for Common Sense
The Senate Armed Services Committee has finished its work on the fiscal year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act that sets policy for the Department of Defense (DOD). The bill authorizes $514 billion for the Pentagon and the national security programs at the Department of Energy. And although the Pentagon requested an additional $79.4 billion for undescribed expenditures in so-called \”Overseas Contingency Operations \” (OCO) in Afghanistan, the short-term good news for the taxpayer is the committee didn’t include any authority to spend money for this account.
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