Guess who won't be in the room where it happens?

Rebecca Kheel has written this excellent Military.com status report on the competing proposals for military justice reform. It's hard to see why it would not be better for Congress to consider the subject through freestanding legislation rather than in the context of the defense authorization. 

Meanwhile, the Defense Department is moving ahead with its own plan, implementation of which could take years. 

Why so long? President Harry S. Truman signed the UCMJ on May 5, 1950, and the measure, with a new all-services Manual for Courts-Martial, took effect less than 13 months later.