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Old 12-02-2016, 02:59 PM
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Defense Bill Update
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Defense Bill Update:

House and Senate conferees negotiated a $618.7 billion defense policy bill this week that would increase military pay raises from the administration’s proposed 1.6 percent to 2.1 percent, which would equal the anticipated rise in the Employment Cost Index (ECI), and mark the first time in four years that military pay kept pace with the ECI.

Other significant provisions would halt planned reductions in active duty Army and Marine Corps forces, keeping end strengths instead at 476,000 and 185,000, respectively; flag officer ranks would be cut by about 12 percent, the majority of them in joint billets; and stripped from the bill are plans to require women, age 18 to 26, to register for the draft.

A review of the Selective Service System’s continued viability will instead be initiated.

The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act is expected to go to floor votes in the House today and in the Senate early next week
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