A June 12thpost reviewed the status of appropriations bills relating to Cuba in the U.S. House of Representatives. Now we look at what happened last week in Congress on these and other measures.
National Defense Authorization Act FY 2016[1]
On June 18, the Senate passed its version of the spending authorization for the Department of Defense for Fiscal Year 2016.
The White House threatened to veto the bill. The main bone of contention is the bill’s continuation of sequestration of funds and use of so-called budget gimmicks. The White House opposes also opposes the bill because it contains language that it claims would make it hard to shutter the U.S. prison facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It calls the process for winning congressional approval of closing Guantánamo “unnecessary and overly restrictive.”
The same day, however, Senator John McCain (Rep., AZ) said that Defense Secretary Aston Carter had pledged to…
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