Congress

By Calvin Biesecker The House on Wednesday approved seven new homeland security bills covering areas such as covert bomb testing, bomb prevention and respond, and biometrics, that the chairman of […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee yesterday approved a $41.3 billion budget for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in FY ’09, a nearly 7 percent increase […]

By Emelie Rutherford Boeing supporters in Congress warned yesterday if the Air Force does not heed the Government Accountability Office’s call to reopen the tanker contract competition between Boeing [BA] […]

By Calvin Biesecker A congressional mandate that all cargo containers bound for the United States be electronically scanned for threats raises a host of challenges for the U.S. and foreign […]

By Emelie Rutherford Surrogates for presumptive presidential nominees Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) described yesterday cautious approaches the candidates would take to the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW)–though […]

By Emelie Rutherford With the Government Accountability Office’s decision on Boeing‘s [BA] protest of the Air Force tanker contract to Northrop Grumman [NOC] expected this Thursday, lawmakers on both sides […]

By Emelie Rutherford Maine’s senators are appealing to defense appropriators in their chamber to heed the Navy’s $2.5 billion budget request for buying a third DDG-1000 destroyer–and to fight House […]

By Emelie Rutherford House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said yesterday she wants the House to pass the supplemental war-spending bill in time to send final legislation to the president before […]

By Emelie Rutherford A congressionally mandated commission examining U.S. strategic posture and the role of nuclear weapons has the potential to initiate a major reexamination of the nation’s strategic defenses, […]

By Emelie Rutherford Congress has signed off on part of the Pentagon’s reprogramming request–to internally shift billions of dollars in the absence of a war supplemental funding bill–but has put […]