{"id":807614,"date":"2021-09-23T21:28:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T01:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=807614"},"modified":"2021-09-23T21:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T01:28:41","slug":"defense-bill-sails-through-the-house-with-24-billion-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defense-bill-sails-through-the-house-with-24-billion-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Bill Sails Through The House With $24 Billion Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdefense-bill-sails-through-the-house-with-24-billion-increase%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=807614&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><ul>\n<li><strong>The House late Thursday passed the National Defense Authorization Act after a marathon day of voting on hundreds of amendments as Congress continues work toward a government funding bill with a potential shutdown one week away.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The $768 billion defense bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, with \u2014 lawmakers voting in favor. It now heads to the Senate, where it is expected to pass and soon after become law as it has yearly for nearly six decades.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cThis year\u2019s bill invests in what makes America strong: our diversity, our technological innovation, our alliances and partnerships, and those who serve in uniform,\u201d Rep. Adam Smith said Wednesday evening, when the House finished debating it. \u201cPassing it is crucial for our natural security.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The House late Thursday passed the National Defense Authorization Act after a marathon day of voting on hundreds of amendments as Congress continues work toward a government funding bill with a potential shutdown one week away.<\/p>\n<p>The $768 billion defense bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, with \u2013 lawmakers voting in favor. It now heads to the Senate, where it is expected to pass and soon after become law as it has yearly for nearly six decades.<\/p>\n<p>It provides an additional $24 billion for the defense department compared to last year\u2019s legislation, an amount touted by both Washington Democratic Rep. Adam Smith and Alabama Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, the House Armed Services Committee\u2019s chair and ranking member.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s bill invests in what makes America strong: our diversity, our technological innovation, our alliances and partnerships, and those who serve in uniform,\u201d Smith said Wednesday evening, when the House debate on the legislation. \u201cPassing it is crucial for our natural security.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/09\/congress-adds-items-jam-packed-september-budget-infrastructure-debt-ceiling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Congress Enters An Extremely Critical Month With Biden\u2019s Agenda On The Line)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7289015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7289015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lawmakers resumed voting on scores of amendments just after 2 p.m. Thursday, after proposals ranging from easing cannabis companies\u2019 ability to bank to requiring women to register for the draft were adopted Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The first amendment considered Thursday was brought by New York Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman, and required congressional approval for future military activities in Syria. It failed after gathering only 141 votes, shy of the 216 needed to pass.<\/p>\n<p>The House soon after considered an amendment brought by California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna that would end U.S. cooperation with the Saudis regarding their military activity in Yemen. It barely passed, with 219 lawmakers voting in favor.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after, an amendment seeking to limit U.S. support for Saudi airstrikes in war-torn Yemen passed 223-204.<\/p>\n<p>Other amendments, including prohibiting a new intercontinental ballistic missile system and restricting sales of Defense Department surplus military equipment to federal, state or local law enforcement agencies, failed to gather majority support.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation was briefly set to include $1 billion to replenish Israel\u2019s Iron Dome missile defense system, but the bipartisan legislation sailed through the House in a standalone bill instead. It passed 420-9, with eight Democrats joining Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky in voting against it. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/23\/iron-dome-funding-passes-house-representatives\/https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/23\/iron-dome-funding-passes-house-representatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Our Most Reliable Ally\u2019: Israel\u2019s Iron Dome Funding Sails Through The House)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The original provision was included in Democrats\u2019 continuing resolution, their bill to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/21\/house-democrats-pass-government-funding-debt-ceiling-bill-dead-on-arrival-senate-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fund the government<\/a> through Dec. 3 and suspend the debt limit, the second of which Republicans adamantly oppose. With their opposition, Democratic leadership was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/21\/democrats-scrap-1-billion-israeli-defense-funding-bill-doomed-iron-dome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forced to scrap aiding<\/a> the Iron Dome after a handful in the party\u2019s left wing objected to it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7289014\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7289014\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7289014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1232445678-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1232445678-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1232445678-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1232445678-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1232445678-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1232445678-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1232445678-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7289014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Rashida Tlaib in April. She has been a vocal Israel critic. (Joshua Roberts\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The debate before its passage Wednesday became <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">especially tense<\/a>, as both members of both parties implicitly accused Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Antisemitism after her forceful denouncing of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can not only be talking about Israelis\u2019 need for safety at a time when Palestinians are living under a violent apartheid system and are dying from what Human Rights Watch said are war crimes,\u201d she said. \u201cThe bill claims to be quote \u2018replenishment\u2019 for weapons apartheid Israel used in a crisis it manufactured when it attacked worshipers at one of the most holy Islamic locations, the al-Aqsa mosque, committing, again, numerous, numerous war crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats\u2019 government funding bill is doomed in the Senate, where it awaits a GOP filibuster, meaning that lawmakers will have just days to reach a funding compromise to prevent a federal shutdown on Oct. 1. They also have until mid to late-October, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, to suspend the debt limit before seriously risking a nationwide default.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever it is, we will have a (continuing resolution) that passes both houses by September 30,\u201d House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at her press briefing Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House late Thursday passed the National Defense Authorization Act after a marathon day of voting on hundreds of amendments as Congress continues work toward a government funding bill with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}