Congress · 119th Congress
Earmarks flood spending bills after a year’s hiatus
That measure far outshone the rest, with just under $6 billion in project funding across 3,212 individual projects.
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Campaigns · 119th Congress
It’s Calvert vs. Kim in redrawn Southern California district
↵↵Under the new Proposition 50 map, Calvert's current 41st District would go from one President Donald Trump carried by 6 points in the 2024 election to one that former Vice President Kamala Harris would
Policy · 118th Congress
As Willow project decision nears, Alaska ponders ties to oil
“We have blasts that shake the village every day at 6 o’clock,” she said.
Policy · 117th Congress
Both sides dig in as EPA’s final decision on Pebble Mine nears
But the agency announced on Sept. 6 that it would postpone the final determination until December so it could fully review all the comments — though it hasn’t escaped notice that it means there will be
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate NDAA to Pentagon: ‘Immediately’ halt fight against extremism
Jan. 6 alarm After the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the Pentagon placed a major focus on countering extremism. One month afterward, Defense Secretary Lloyd J.
Policy · 117th Congress
Army tells House panel of enormous personnel shortfalls
The survey also showed that 1 in 6 military families has trouble feeding its members — a problem that pre-dated both the pandemic and the recent surge of inflation but that has not gone away.
Policy · 117th Congress
House panel’s NDAA, unlike Senate’s, sticks to Biden’s budget
Pacific Command as it faces down an increasingly assertive China, the measure would authorize $6 billion.
Policy · 117th Congress
Inflation may shrink Biden’s big defense plan
Congress helped the Pentagon deal with inflation in fiscal 2022 by allocating in the omnibus bill fully 6 percent more than in the previous fiscal year, and that bill provided the Pentagon $6.5 billion
Congress · 117th Congress
In the game of earmarks, Shelby has no peers
Shelby’s solo requests alone account for 6 percent of total earmarks in the fiscal 2022 omnibus.
Congress · 117th Congress
Defense spending deal bristles with weapons Biden didn’t seek
The $782.5 billion figure was some $42 billion above fiscal 2021 spending, or nearly 6 percent.
Congress · 117th Congress
GOP decries cost of Pentagon anti-extremism and diversity training
Milley’s missive was dated Jan. 6, 2022 — one year after the Capitol riot. About 15 percent of those charged for perpetrating that attack had military ties.
Policy · 117th Congress
Pentagon review finds few extremists in the armed forces
Austin III responded to the participation of about 80 veterans in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Only one active duty servicemember has reportedly been charged.
Policy · 117th Congress
US ‘rarely’ enforced conditions on Afghanistan aid, audit says
ultimately fell to the Taliban might have been less effective, as a result, than they could have been, according to the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction’s previously unpublicized Oct. 6
Policy · 117th Congress
Ethiopia violence stokes alarm in Washington about civil war
Some 1 million people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray area are experiencing famine-like conditions, and an estimated 5.2 million of the region’s 6 million people need some form of humanitarian aid,
Congress · 117th Congress
House passes stopgap funding, debt ceiling suspension bill
funding bill would provide $28.6 billion to help state and local governments recover from natural disasters, including $10 billion to cover agricultural losses from 2020 and 2021 weather events, nearly $6
Congress · 117th Congress
Anger at the Pentagon is coming from both sides of the aisle
demanding Milley’s resignation, citing reporting from “Peril,” by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, that says Milley had secret, back-channel calls with his Chinese counterpart after the deadly Jan. 6
Policy · 117th Congress
House hearing on Afghanistan withdrawal descends into partisan mudslinging
who raised his profile this year as one of the few House Republicans willing to criticize his party’s embrace of Trump’s efforts to undermine public faith in the 2020 election and to excuse the Jan. 6
Congress · 117th Congress
House panel to debate banning extremism in the military
The fact that some 20 percent of the rioters in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol reportedly had ties to the military has catalyzed these concerns.
Policy · 117th Congress
Whistleblowers detail poor hygiene for migrant kids at Texas site
They also said the contractors “seemed to view their job more as crowd control than youth care,” describing instances in which contractors woke children up at 6 a.m. with a bullhorn.
Policy · 117th Congress
Pentagon’s budget pressures will mount soon
That includes, he said, $6 billion for operations and maintenance to account for higher inflation; $2 billion for military construction; $8 billion in procurement; and $4 billion in research, particularly