Congress

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 […]

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’ […]