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Lawmakers debate use of placeholder 'aircraft carrier' bills for veterans and military measures
Summary
Committee chairs defended plans for two broad placeholder bills intended to bundle agreed-upon veterans and military items; several members objected, calling the practice a circumvention of the public hearing process. Both placeholder bills were nevertheless advanced to the floor.
Members of the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee engaged in a prolonged debate over the committee’s use of broad “placeholder” or “aircraft carrier” bills to carry multiple veterans- and military-related measures.
Representative Jamie Foster, chair, said the placeholder vehicles were intended to capture “low-hanging fruit” — bipartisan, noncontroversial items that previously had passed in committee but sometimes died on the floor because of time — and to prevent well-supported measures from being lost. Foster…
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