Congress

The long-awaited markup of the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee’s fiscal year 2020 defense spending bill fully funds or provides more money for space-related efforts, countering cuts made in the House-passed […]

Deployments of new scanners with enhanced capabilities for peering inside travelers’ bags at airport security checkpoints will begin this fall, a senior Transportation Security Administration official said on Tuesday. Deployments […]

The Senate defense appropriations panel on Tuesday advanced its $695 billion fiscal year 2020 spending bill, which is set to face significant debate over the Pentagon’s reprogramming authorities following the […]

The next-generation, nuclear-armed, intercontinental ballistic missile that Boeing [BA] has vowed not to prime would get $65 million more than the White House requested for 2020, if a bill advanced […]

The Trump administration has registered discontent with several elements of the Senate-passed fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and issued a letter last week urging remedies be applied […]

The leaders of the House and Senate have each announced plans to buy time for Congress to move through the fiscal year 2020 appropriations process by passing a continuing resolution, […]

Congress is scheduled to return from its annual August recess Sept. 9 and will waste no time diving into negotiations to flesh out the fiscal year 2020 defense authorization and […]

Three House lawmakers announced Sept. 4 that they will not seek reelection in 2020, including the number-two Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) and a longtime NASA observer […]

A bipartisan group of senators who are part of the Ukraine Caucus and on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a letter Sept. 3 to White House officials, urging the […]

Congressmen John Ratcliffe (R-Calif.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Monday said they will introduce a bill this week that codifies a key Department of Homeland Security program that helps protect […]