This realization should make it easier to fold some of our expenses into the defense bill.
The $1.1 billion defense bill passed last month included $113 million to aid recruiting.
Under the agreement, the treaty amendment and the entire defense bill will come up for final approval Friday.
Defense lawyers ran up an enormous legal defense bill which the organization was not able to pay.
You can bet that I will fight for another pay raise in this year's defense bill as well.
Sanctions for such violations were stipulated as part of a defense bill passed by Congress last year.
President Reagan has warned that he may veto the defense bill.
The House, voting largely along party lines, rejected similar additions to the defense bill last week.
The amended defense bill passed the House on May 28, 2010.
The negotiators must still make a formal decision to add it to the defense bill.