Gwen Graham-backed MacDill AFB amendment added to NDAA
U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham is among the Armed Services panel members currently slogging through a marathon session to craft a national defense budget for FY 2017. The infamously complex and time-intensive process of producing the annual National Defense Authorization Act began early Wednesday morning and as of press time clocked in at around six hours long, with about 30 member-sponsored amendments considered and some 70 left to go. The upside for Graham, besides bringing Chief of Staff Julia Gill Woodward‘s infant son along for…