LAWMAKERS HAIL CHEMICAL WEAPONS PROGRESS, CHASTISE PENTAGON

Leading Kentucky lawmakers late last month expressed optimism that the United States would meet a congressionally mandated deadline to destroy its stockpile of chemical weapons agents by 2017, citing recent progress toward eliminating the last stockpile in the country, slated for destruction at a facility in their state, but also criticized the Defense Department (DOD) for failing to make chemical weapons destruction a higher priority. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R), the Senate minority leader, and Rep. Ben Chandler (D) Aug. 21...