Congress · 119th Congress
Lawmakers’ concerns grow about Americans left stranded in Mideast
Kim said up to 1 million Americans may potentially be in harm's way.
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Congress · 119th Congress
Iran war powers votes expected ‘very soon’
↵↵"My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy, but one thing is certain — I will never allow the world's No. 1 sponsor of terror to have a nuclear weapon," Trump added.
Congress · 119th Congress
White House proposes new taxes to boost US shipbuilding
The report offers a range of possibilities, from a 1-cent-per-kilogram tax, raising $66 billion over a decade, to a 25-cent tax raising $1.5 trillion.
Congress · 119th Congress
Exploring the legality questions about Venezuela military strike
Yet, he said, it has "long been the position" of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel "that history has ratified unilateral presidential deployments of military force as long as (1) the deployment
Congress · 119th Congress
Trump expands countries with US travel restrictions
The new bans are set to take effect Jan. 1 and apply only to foreign nationals outside who do not have a valid visa on the effective date of the proclamation.
Policy · 118th Congress
Little-noticed US funding for China tech sector now draws scrutiny
Corrected 1:18 p.m. | Even as Washington takes a hard line on keeping U.S. technology and data beyond China’s reach, the federal government has thus far been slow to close another channel of technology
Congress · 118th Congress
House passes bill limiting oil reserve sales to China
Republicans, who also had broader criticisms of the move, raised objections to the sale of nearly 1 million barrels of oil to Unipec America, a Houston-based subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned firm
Policy · 117th Congress
DOD strategy reports show rising nuclear tensions
To be sure, the administration would like to see few weapons programs terminated, namely the sea-launched cruise missile and the B83-1 gravity bomb. But those positions were known.
Congress · 117th Congress
Aid bill for 9/11 families exposes rift with former Iran hostages
Annual fund deposits reached a peak of over $1 billion in fiscal 2019, capping years of steady growth.
Congress · 117th Congress
The Senate’s treaty oversight has atrophied just as it’s needed most
Kaine’s measure, which the Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced in late March by a 21-1 vote, would require a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate or an act of Congress before any president
Congress · 117th Congress
GOP decries cost of Pentagon anti-extremism and diversity training
Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, indicating that the armed forces dedicated nearly 6 million hours and about $1 million in additional expenses to training sessions focused on these
Congress · 117th Congress
Foreign aid for Afghanistan in flux after Taliban takeover
“We need Congress and the White House to be working with us right now on what happens Sept. 1 and forward,” said Rita Sharma, vice president of U.S. programs and policy advocacy at CARE, a major
Policy · 117th Congress
Blinken tells House panel to expect firmness toward Iran, China
[jwp-video n=”1″] Blinken told Rep.
Policy · 117th Congress
Health care bore brunt of cyberattacks in 2020, study says
[jwp-video n=”1″] Nation-state hackers focused on espionage while criminals looking to make money used the digital landscape created by the pandemic to “get into various organizations to conduct
Policy · 116th Congress
Hey, soldiers and spies — think twice about that home genetic ancestry test
[jwp-video n=”1″] Companies such as 23andMe, AncestrybyDNA, Genebase and Full Genomes, for example, are among dozens that provide consumer genetic testing to identify susceptibility to potential
Policy · 116th Congress
Ratcliffe’s warning on foreign interference with US voters provokes skepticism
[jwp-video n=”1″] Vice News said it obtained a copy of the video and posted it on YouTube after obscuring voter details.
Policy · 116th Congress
Report: Hackers aimed at manufacturing firms during pandemic
[jwp-video n=”1″] While technology, telecom and financial companies are routinely targeted, “the manufacturing industry has experienced a dramatic increase in interactive intrusion activity
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Biden would largely discard Trump’s foreign policies on Day 1
Democrats, particularly the party’s left flank, also want to push for the reallocation of national security spending, including a $1 trillion initiative to modernize the nuclear arsenal.
Policy · 116th Congress
Trump’s TikTok threat lacks coherent tech strategy, experts say
[jwp-video n=”1″] Trump administration officials including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Justice Department officials have said that Chinese tech companies
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Social media platforms gird for 78 days of disinformation chaos after Election Day
[jwp-video n=”1″] Lawmakers and disinformation experts say social media companies must be prepared to confront the likely onslaught of lies and misleading information during that period.