House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Sunday that a House-Senate defense authorization bill will likely have broad support, The Hill reported. The House version passed Friday on a mostly party-line vote because of the addition of some conservative amendments, such as one reversing a Pentagon abortion policy.

“Look, this is a process, you know, we had a lot of amendments, our members needed that vote, and I do think at the end of the day, we come together as a conference, and it will be a bipartisan bill,” McCaul told Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation.

The Senate today begins floor debate on its version of the NDAA. It’s expected to produce a more moderate version than the House approved Friday. The two will need to be reconciled, approved by both chambers and signed by President Biden by Sept. 30.

The bill has passed every year for more than 60 years but occasionally after the Sept. 30 deadline.

Air Force photo of Rep. McCaul by Airman 1st Class William Pugh