In a 70-20 vote, the Senate passed its $925 billion defense bill Thursday, a month after House lawmakers passed their $893 billion version of the bill. “Armed Services committees will now attempt to negotiate a compromise bill that can pass by the end of the year,” Politico reports. Notable: The Senate’s version restricts U.S. troop reductions in Europe and in South Korea. It also seeks “to overhaul the Pentagon’s complex acquisition process to ramp up the defense industrial base and allow the military to more quickly field needed weapons and technology.”

Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: “This year’s NDAA reflects the severity of the threat environment we find ourselves in—one that we have not faced since World War II. This bill centers on

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