Congress

The Defense Department finally has its authorization bill for fiscal year 2014, even if it came about in an unusual fashion: the House of Representatives had to pass two distinct […]

With a budget and a defense authorization bill finally passed by Congress during the last week of its 2013 session, House and Senate appropriators can now turn their attention to […]

The Pentagon’s top leaders on Thursday welcomed final congressional passage of a budget law that reduces the impact of sequestration for fiscals 2014 and 2015, but cautioned that the relief […]

The Senate passed the Bipartisan Budget Agreement Wednesday evening in a 64-36 vote, reducing sequestration for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 and allowing the appropriations committees to begin developing a […]

The Senate and House appropriations committees’ staffs will work through the holiday recess to reach an agreement on how to fund the government this year given the new spending cap–$1.012 […]

The Senate on Monday voted 78-16 to confirm Jeh Johnson as the next Secretary of Homeland Security, who has vowed to make his immediate priority be the filling of a […]

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) released his annual Wastebook spending oversight report to highlight “wasteful and low-priority spending totaling nearly $30 billion,” which this year featured numerous military acquisition programs and community outreach […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman yesterday urged her colleagues to quickly pass the Bipartisan Budget Agreement this week so her committee can begin its work writing an omnibus appropriations bill […]

The Senate on Sunday will begin what could be a long parliamentary process to pass both the Bipartisan Budget Act and the National Defense Authorization Act, though votes won’t take […]

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said Friday that he expects a spirited debate over the possibility of eliminating the service’s fleet of aging A-10 Warthogs but said […]