Senate Majority Leader John Thune suggested Monday that he wants to tackle a contentious provision on military helicopters in a separate spending package — and not by axing it from the annual defense policy bill that’s set to pass this week.
That’s a blow to Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the committee’s ranking member, who have been calling on their colleagues to help strip the language out of the National Defense Authorization Act.
The nation’s top transportation accident investigator has complained that the NDAA language would allow certain military helicopters to fly without using an advanced…
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