Holiday Suspense

摘要

The FY 2008 Defense Authorization Bill is hung up in pre-holiday wrangling, delaying decisions on a pay raise, health care, concurrent receipt, SBP, and dozens of other fixes. After six weeks of intense negotiation among congressional leaders to resolve the differences between the House- and Senate-passed versions of the FY 2008 Defense Authorization Bill, the word in early November 2007 was that nearly all of the issues had been resolved and the final bill would be finished before Thanksgiving.