Applied DNA Sciences Inc (APDN)

[mcsharkey]

FYI Today, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed the Senate yesterday with a comfortable vote of 71–25.

[/quote]Yet authorization only represents half of the defense budget. In distributing funding Congress has two main types of legislation. Authorization, to decide where money will be spent and, appropriations to decide how much. The Department of Defense Appropriations Act would supply this budget, but since Congress could not end debate on the bill they cannot vote on the bill itself. The vote to end debate failed to reach the three-fifths threshold, with almost all Republicans voting for it and Democrats voting against. It required 60 votes to pass.

Senators and presidential candidates Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY) were the only two Republicans to vote against the NDAA. In a press release about the bill, Cruz said:

“I made a promise when I was elected to office that I would not vote for an NDAA that continued to allow the President to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens by indefinitely detaining them without due process.”[/quote]Again, just an FYI. Provisions in the act was backing the Secretary of Defense's efforts in pursuing advanced technology to aid supply chain woes. Just have to see if it may help my own woes.

Respectfully!