Progressive lawmakers Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) are urging President Biden to scale back nuclear modernization efforts, including pausing development of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program and canceling the new low-yield nuclear warhead effort. In a ...

The lead Republican on the Senate committee that authorizes the Coast Guard is asking President Joe Biden to support the service’s recapitalization, operations and shore infrastructure accounts in the upcoming fiscal year 2022 budget request for the federal government. “Over the past decade, ...

The bipartisan leadership of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is asking the Coast Guard to consider a number of new demands the service has been responding to the past few years as part of its requirement to update its fleet analysis. “We are concerned that past Fleet Mix ...

Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) have introduced a bill to extend a provision allowing companies to submit COVID-related claims for reimbursement through the end of fiscal year 2021, rather than its current March 31 deadline. “The provision allows a critical lifeline for federal ...

After failing to get legislation passed into law last year requiring certain private sector entities to disclose that they’ve been a victim of a cyber incident, Democrats and Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee plan to resurrect a bill on incident reporting and others are working ...

Jennifer Granholm will be the next secretary of energy after the Senate confirmed her by a wide, bipartisan margin to lead the Department of Energy and the almost $30-billion-a-year worth of nuclear weapons and waste programs that make up more than half the agency’s budget. Senators voted to ...