HASC Rejects Base Closure, F-35 Restrictions During NDAA Markup

HASC Rejects Base Closure, F-35 Restrictions During NDAA Markup
HASC Rejects Base Closure, F-35 Restrictions During NDAA Markup

[updated with final results] CAPITOL HILL: Bipartisan majorities in the House Armed Services Committee have steamrollered proposals to slow down the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and to permit the Pentagon to plan for base closures, but reformers at least made a respectable run at the windmill during markup of fiscal year 2014 National Defense Authorization…