Congress

By Emelie Rutherford Army officials told concerned lawmakers yesterday they are weighing how to work with industry when the service plans to pause production of three key vehicles. Rep. Silvestre […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Marine Corps’ top officer told lawmakers yesterday he is closely monitoring development of his service’s variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and hopes to remove […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate is expected to debate this week a defense appropriations bill for the remainder of this fiscal year that would cut $17.3 billion from President Barack’s […]

By Calvin Biesecker Going ahead with a resolution that cuts more than $1 billion from the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) budget in FY ’11 would delay projects and progress […]

By Calvin Biesecker Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the budget cuts contained for her department in the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government this year are […]

By Calvin Biesecker An Office of Management and Budget rule requiring full funding for a program in a given fiscal year is the reason the Coast Guard decided against requesting […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Republican-controlled House is slated to debate a two-week budget extension today that would maintain the Pentagon at last year’s budget levels and prevent a government shutdown […]

By Emelie Rutherford House and Senate leaders continued to clash yesterday over how to proceed with the current year’s budget, leaving in doubt a House measure that could end both […]

By Calvin Biesecker Three senators last week introduced updated legislation that would prohibit the president or any employee of the federal government from shutting down the Internet, moving to untangle […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House voted to kill funding for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s alternate engine yesterday as a congressional panel questioned if the Pentagon illegally lobbied lawmakers to […]