U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, praised the conference report for the Department of Defense appropriations bill:

“The men and women who volunteer to wear the uniform deserve stable, reliable, adequate funding, but for too long Congress has failed to provide that certainty. I’m pleased that with this defense appropriations bill Congress is finally on track to fully fund our military by the start of the fiscal year for the first time in nearly ten years.”