Wednesday: Defense spending, NDAA

by Jordain Carney - 06/10/15 9:19 AM ET

House lawmakers will begin debate Wednesday of a defense spending bill, which has garnered a veto threat from the White House.

The House bill would add an additional $38 billion to the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund to help alleviate the impact of congressionally-mandated budget caps on the Defense Department.

{mosads}”Shifting base budget resources into OCO risks undermining a mechanism meant to fund incremental costs of overseas conflicts and fails to provide a stable, multi-year budget on which defense planning and fiscal policy are based,” the White House’s budget office said Tuesday.

House lawmakers are expected to convene at 10 a.m., with first votes expected between 1:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. Last votes are expected between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Meanwhile, the Senate will continue debating an annual defense policy bill.

The Senate will convene at 9:30 a.m. for leader remarks, before restarting debate on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) around 10:30 a.m.

No votes are currently scheduled in the Senate.

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