The House Armed Services Committee met to consider a measure authorizing Defense Department programs and policies for fiscal year 2012. Among the issues debated were the repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, continued funding for a second engine for the new Joint Strike Fighter, and modernization of the nation's nuclear weapons systems.

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