Senate Passes HR 5515 – FY 2019 NDAA

Yesterday the Senate passed HR 5515, the FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a bipartisan vote of 85 to 10. An earlier attempt (pg S3972) to adopt 47 additional amendments en bloc was blocked by Sen. Paul (R,KY) because the Senate would not consider his amendment on indefinite detention of American citizens (SA 2574, pg S3389). Presumably this list of amendments contained most of the block that was offered last week.

There is an outside chance that the House will accept the revised language that the Senate just passed. Much more likely is that the House will demand that its language stand and the bill will be sent to a conference committee to work out the differences.