Budget

Aggression from Russia and other world events are slowly leading some budget-cutting Republicans to see the need in higher defense budgets, the vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee […]

The House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee (HAC HS) on Wednesday evening began marking up its version of the FY ’15 Homeland Security Bill, which provides $39.2 billion in discretionary funding, […]

Much like its House counterparts, the Senate Armed Services Committee deviated from the Pentagon’s acquisition request not to alter military strategy but rather to protect the industrial base and the […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee did not force the Pentagon to buy as many unrequested items as the House Armed Services Committee did, but in several cases the senators authorized […]

The House passed its version of the Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act in a 325-98 vote, pushing forward a bill that protected the military’s current size and infrastructure […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee passed its version of the Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act in a 25-1 vote, pushing a bill to the full Senate that seems […]

Congressmen spent most of Wednesday afternoon debating procedural issues associated with the Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act, not actually getting into any of the amendments as of press […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee began marking up its Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act on Tuesday morning, with five of its six subcommittees completing their markups on a […]

As the full House prepares to debate and amend the Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act this week, the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee chairman said he believes the […]

The House will debate the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 this week, likely beginning Wednesday, after lawmakers filed more than 300 amendments to the bill. A total […]