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By DAVE RESS | The Virginian-Pilot | Published: December 10, 2020
(Tribune News Service) Seeing how near the waters of the Back River can come to North King Street and listening to how Virginia military families worry about finding child care have shaped the defense spending bill for fiscal year 2021.
Buried in the 4,500-page, $731.6 billion spending plan, which passed the House on Tuesday and is slated for a final vote in the Senate this week, are a series of policy directives that have their roots in Hampton Roads.
One, based on legislation that Senate Armed Services Committee member Tim Kaine and his Connecticut colleague Richard Blumenthal pushed, directs the Pentagon to identify additional benefits for defense department child-care employees to make sure base facilities are fully staffed. ....

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