Congress

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Strongly Backs Measure A powerful House committee chairman strongly endorsed a pending House resolution that recognizes the right of Israel to defend itself against rocket […]

President Bush last year opposed an Israeli plan to launch an air strike employing earth-penetrating ordnance to annihilate deeply-buried nuclear processing facilities in Iran, according to The New York Times […]

By Emelie Rutherford A battle is brewing on Capitol Hill over whether to compel the Pentagon to buy aerial refueling tankers from each of the two firms battling for the […]

Navy Secretary Donald Winter yesterday named the next Virginia-class attack submarine the USS John Warner, in honor of recently retired Virginia Senator John Warner, according to the Navy. The USS […]

By Emelie Rutherford An influential naval panel on Capitol Hill will have a new Republican leader for the next two years, because Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) had to relinquish the […]

By Emelie Rutherford As dozens of lawmakers from both chambers and parties lobby President-elect Barack Obama to boost shipbuilding funding, a powerful congressional budget writer said their goal to budget […]

By Ann Roosevelt The incoming Obama administration appears to be in sync with what the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department is doing, according to the […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon’s request for the supplemental war-funding bill is not complete and may cost $69.7 billion or more, depending on decisions regarding force levels in Afghanistan, the […]

When U.S. astronauts next set foot on the moon, they likely will be following Chinese taikonauts there, an aerospace leader predicted. Marion Blakey, the Aerospace Industries Association president and CEO, […]

NASA is commemorating the heady days in the 1960s when the United States was committing enormous resources, both financial and technological, to its space program, with a celebration this week […]