House Agrees to HR 6395 Conference Report – FY 2021 NDAA

Yesterday the House voted to agree to the Conference Report on HR 6395, the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. The Report was agreed to by a strongly bipartisan vote of 335 to 78. The 78 negative votes were nearly equally divided between Republicans (40) and Democrats (37). This would tend to indicate that the crafters of the Report constructed a fairly middle-of-the-road compromise on the legislation.

The Senate will take up the bill later this week. It appears that the Senate will also agree to the Report with a bipartisan majority.

There has been no word of Trump backing down from his threat to veto the bill. The vote in the House could mean that there were enough votes there to override a veto. That is not certain, since there is a good chance that there would be some level of Republican defections if it comes down to a veto override vote.