Congress

By Emelie Rutherford Military leaders pushed back yesterday on criticism from House lawmakers who are upset the Pentagon does not want to fund a disputed jet-engine program and believe new […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Navy’s DDG-1000 destroyer program is poised to breach cost-controls set by Congress requiring it to be canceled or recertified process, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday. […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Departments of Homeland Security and Energy are forming a new senior-level partnership to better manage and leverage existing relationships between the two departments on aviation security […]

By Emelie Rutherford The heads of a congressional panel dug in their heels yesterday on their opposing stances on whether Congress should continue funding a jet engine program over which […]

By Emelie Rutherford NASA leaders argued yesterday President Barack Obama’s proposal to cancel the Constellation program would not hamper human spaceflight, as lawmakers whose states’ economies are linked to the […]

By Emelie Rutherford President Barack Obama’s budget request to Congress for the Marine Corps calls for keeping alive yet delaying the once-troubled Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) effort, which was scrutinized […]

By Emelie Rutherford Florida, Alabama, and Texas lawmakers are girding for a battle over NASA’s future this week following word President Barack Obama today will recommend canceling the Constellation program […]

By Emelie Rutherford House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s call to freeze some Pentagon funding received a cool reception from many of her congressional colleagues yesterday. Still, President Barack Obama’s exclusion of […]

By Emelie Rutherford Senior Democrats continued to voice concerns yesterday about funding the wars through borrowing, though lawmakers acknowledge legislation to create a surtax to pay for the conflicts in […]

By Emelie Rutherford Defense analysts said yesterday they do not expect the Pentagon to propose major weapon-system cuts in the fiscal year 2011 budget request and Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) […]