The House Armed Services Committee approved, 55-2, its version of the annual Pentagon policy bill late Tuesday night after a nearly 14-hour markup during which lawmakers waded through hundreds of amendments on topics including Ukraine, abortion rights and the renaming of military bases, among other contentious issues.
Only California Democrats Ro Khanna and Sara Jacobs voted against the measure.
Still, the favorable reporting of the bill was overwhelmingly bipartisan, bucking a trend in which Democrats had unanimously opposed Pentagon policy bills in recent years over their inclusion of partisan policy riders. The legislation has been enacted into law for 64 consecutive years.
