WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the chairman of the Subcommittee on Personnel, has been appointed to the conference committee for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, which authorizes defense spending and sets the policy and priorities for our military. The conference committee will focus on rectifying the differences between the House and Senate versions of the legislation. 

Senator Tillis has been a champion for North Carolina’s servicemembers, military families, and military installations. As the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee, Tillis has spearheaded efforts to give servicemembers pay raises and improve housing conditions for military families. Tillis has also brought home more than $1 billion in funding for construction projects for North Carolina’s military installations.

“I’m honored to be appointed to the NDAA conference committee and work with my colleagues to find consensus to authorize critical funding for our military,” said Senator Tillis. “As chairman of the Personnel Subcommittee, I will work to ensure our men and women in uniform get the pay raises they deserve and long-needed reforms to privatized military housing are included.

“I will also work with my colleagues to give Camp Lejeune and North Carolina’s military installations the funding authorizations they need to recover from Hurricane Florence and make necessary improvements. Funding our military and putting our national security at risk should not be a political exercise, and I hope we can quickly come to an agreement and pass the NDAA out of Congress.” 

This summer, both the Senate and House of Representatives passed their version of the NDAA, which set the stage for a conference committee to work out the differences between the Senate and House versions.

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