Congress

The House on July 25 passed a two-year spending bill that would remove the threat of sequestration through fiscal year 2021, with the Senate expected to vote on the bill […]

The number of open senior Pentagon positions is slowly shrinking as the Senate overwhelmingly approved Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley to become the 20th chairman of the Joint […]

The House on Wednesday passed by voice vote a bipartisan authorization bill for the Coast Guard that failed to include a provision that service members would be paid during a […]

With new Secretary of Defense Mark Esper recusing himself from any matters involving his former employee Raytheon [RTN], the Pentagon’s evaluation of the top defense contractor’s impending merger with United […]

The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is pushing his GOP colleagues to support a new two-year budget deal secured this week by the Trump administration and […]

As lawmakers on Capitol Hill largely laud a proposed agreement between the White House and House Democratic leaders that would eliminate the threat of sequestration and lift the debt ceiling […]

The Senate confirmed Mark Esper to become the next permanent secretary of defense July 23 by a landslide vote, ending months of uncertainty about the Pentagon’s leadership. Esper, who previously […]

Congress has been sharply divided along mostly party lines on whether to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that has allowed the executive branch to circumvent […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on July 18 approved the nominations of the Pentagon’s top two civil and military officials, paving a path for the full Senate to confirm […]

The U.S. Navy must be able to project its surface power throughout the world’s oceans, including the Arctic, Army. Gen. Mark Milley, the nominee to be the next chairman of […]