Budget

The Senate’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 has been introduced and placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar, but leadership has not yet scheduled time […]

The House Appropriations defense subcommittee laid out a $570.4 billion spending plan Thursday that followed in the House Armed Services Committee’s path of cutting operations and maintenance and research and […]

Tensions are high between the active Army and the National Guard as the Army reduces combat operations, faces new challenges and a restrictive budget, but hard data can make the […]

The House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee (HAC HS) on Wednesday evening unanimously approved by voice vote a $39.2 billion discretionary spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in […]

Aggression from Russia and other world events are slowly leading some budget-cutting Republicans to see the need in higher defense budgets, the vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee […]

The House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee (HAC HS) on Wednesday evening began marking up its version of the FY ’15 Homeland Security Bill, which provides $39.2 billion in discretionary funding, […]

Much like its House counterparts, the Senate Armed Services Committee deviated from the Pentagon’s acquisition request not to alter military strategy but rather to protect the industrial base and the […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee did not force the Pentagon to buy as many unrequested items as the House Armed Services Committee did, but in several cases the senators authorized […]

The House passed its version of the Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act in a 325-98 vote, pushing forward a bill that protected the military’s current size and infrastructure […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee passed its version of the Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act in a 25-1 vote, pushing a bill to the full Senate that seems […]