House panel's top Republican backs Democrats' defense bill

摘要

House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Mac Thornberry (R-TX) said today he supports the burgeoning fiscal year 2021 defense authorization bill being offered by the panel's Democratic majority, increasing the legislation's chances of bipartisan passage.Thornberry put out a statement following the release of Committee Chairman Adam Smith's (D-WA) "chairman's mark.""The chairman's mark is not the bill I would have written, but on the whole, it is one I agree with and can support," Thornberry said. "It is the product of the House Armed Services Committee's bipartisan process and reflects priorities raised by of all of the committee's members."