Congress

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 […]

By Emelie Rutherford President Barack Obama proposed an $18.7 billion NASA budget for fiscal year 2012 yesterday that some supporters of the space agency said does not jibe with Congress’ […]

By Emelie Rutherford As the Pentagon continues to prod Congress to pass a budget for the fiscal year that began four months ago, defense leaders argued yesterday a defense spending […]

By Calvin Biesecker Hardly any of the United States’ northern border with Canada is under acceptable control by the Border Patrol, basically just 32 of nearly 4,000 total miles, necessitating […]

By Emelie Rutherford A top Senate Democrat announced yesterday a two-year ban on earmarks from spending bills, temporarily halting appropriations earmarks throughout Congress and further altering how defense firms seek to […]

By Emelie Rutherford Senators on a key panel yesterday struggled to assess whether European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS) received an unfair advantage in the Air Force tanker competition […]

By Carlo Munoz The newly empowered Republican leadership on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) are mulling changes to the jurisdictional structure of the panel’s subcommittees to make the group more […]