House defense bill doesn't include Pentagon proposal to make sexual harassment stand-alone military crime

The Hill: A Pentagon request to make sexual harassment a stand-alone crime in the military justice system came too late for the House Armed Services Committee to include it in its annual defense policy bill, committee staff said Monday.

“We got the request a little for our process," a committee staffer told reporters. "If something comes later on, then we’ll look at it as it happens.”

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