U.S. Congress to consider new version of sweeping defense policy bill

The U.S. House and Senate Armed Services Committees said on Tuesday a version of the National Defense Authorization Act, a sweeping defense policy bill, would go before Congress this week, with $5 billion of cuts reflecting a budget deal passed last week. The bill contains strict limits on transfers from the detention center that could prevent President Barack Obama from keeping his promise to close it. Obama vetoed the NDAA last month because of the way it used war funds to let the Department o