Budget

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in a report released Monday estimated that over the Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan costs will be on average about 13 percent more than the service […]

The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2015 on Friday, sending the bill to the president’s desk for the 53rd year in a row. The House […]

Congress struggled Thursday to avert a government shutdown Friday, with an early afternoon vote in the House canceled as lawmakers realized they might not have enough votes to pass a […]

House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday evening on a $1.01-trillion spending bill that funds most of the government through the end of September and provides the Defense Department $490.2 billion […]

Congress has yet to finalize its fiscal year 2015 spending bill, though lawmakers expect a deal soon as a Thursday night deadline looms. After several delays in releasing the compromise […]

As the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 for the second time and sent the newest compromise version along to the Senate for consideration next […]

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told a House panel on Tuesday that Congress needs to approve his department’s fiscal appropriations request for FY ’15 or risk jeopardizing homeland security. “Let […]

Leaders of the House and Senate committees responsible for overseeing the policies of the Coast Guard on Monday said they have agreed on legislation to authorize the service, which is […]

The House Armed Services Committee filed a new bill to serve as the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 on Tuesday afternoon that provides $521 billion in base […]

House and Senate appropriations committee staffers spent their Thanksgiving holiday weekend hard at work, negotiating a full appropriations bill for fiscal year 2015 to take the place of the continuing […]