Congress passed the House and Senate committee reconciliation of the 2013 Defense Budget. It goes to President Obama who had threatened to Veto it, but nobody thinks he really will. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden voted against it in the Senate, as did Peter DeFazio in the House, along with Earl Blumenauer and Kurt Schrader, but Suzanne Bonamici and Greg Walden voted for it.
The major controversies in the bill relate to Guantanamo closing and indefinite detention without trial of US Citizens.It looks like Obama will resort to a signing statement and go ahead and sign it, given the host of other issues floating around right now, and that's a sad thing. That's how politics "works" though. Ugh.
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