The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) held its first meeting of the new session of Congress, welcoming six new Republicans and nine new Democrats to the committee and making some jurisdictional changes within its subcommittees.Under the new HASC rules, the personnel subcommittee will work with the Merchant Marine Academy to keep all of the military academies under the purview of the same subcommittee; the strategic forces subcommittee will gain oversight of Department of Energy nonproliferation programs and Cooperative Threat Reduction…
