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Juneteenth is now a federal holiday, as Biden signs bill
“We are gathered here in a house built by enslaved people. We are footsteps away from where President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Democrats’ backroom clashes over military justice erupt onto Senate floor
Support for her bill and a comparable one in the House by California Democrat Jackie Speier swelled after last April’s killing at Fort Hood, Texas, of 20-year-old Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén.
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Divide over scope of military’s extremism problem impedes culture, policy changes
Indeed, two senior military officials recently told lawmakers there were “zero” extremists under their command.
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Capitol Police faced equipment shortage during Jan. 6 attack
The department’s official timeline shows that the final CDU plan “indicates that officers will not independently employ force without command authorization unless exigent circumstances justify immediate
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As debate on security ramps up, Capitol Police push back on IG
“So in other words, if those pipe bombs were intended to be a diversion, plainly speaking, it worked,” Bolton told the House Administration Committee.
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Capitol Police IG casts doubt on department’s Jan. 6 timeline
That was the upshot from Monday’s House Administration hearing, in which Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton told the committee he could not vouch for the department’s internal timelines
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Failure to communicate: The Capitol Police leadership gap on Jan. 6
Commanders on the ground, she said during a Feb. 25 hearing of the House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, were so overwhelmed with attempting to hold back the mob that they could not
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Congress poised to force historic change in military justice system
The House, for its part, is widely expected to adopt a similar provision taking prosecution decisions out of commanders’ hands, at least for sexual crimes.
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Inspector general cites glaring problems within Capitol Police
Bolton will appear Thursday before the House Administration Committee to discuss his work.
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Americans at military bases overseas struggle to get COVID-19 vaccine
Turner, a senior House Armed Services Committee member, said in an email. Turner, one of several lawmakers whom Seger contacted recently, previously raised the issue with Defense Secretary Lloyd J.
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Capitol Police, DC National Guard leaders need emergency authority to act, review finds
National Guard, and the chain of command runs down to the Defense secretary and the Army secretary.
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Capitol Police chief disputes FBI’s account of pre-insurrection warnings
“The FBI only sent the email,” Pittman told House appropriators Wednesday.
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‘Quite a week,’ Pelosi says, previewing more to come
The week of Feb. 22 is when the House plans to bring the package to the floor, with the Rules Committee as usual determining the procedures governing debate.
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Lawmakers near big response to military ‘rape epidemic’
Nearly half the House co-sponsored her bill in the last Congress.
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Senate confirms Austin as nation’s first Black Defense secretary
The House voted 326-78 to pass a waiver Thursday, which exempts Austin from the seven-year “cooling off period” for retired generals taking over the helm of the Pentagon currently prescribed by law
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‘All hell broke loose’: January so far a roller coaster for D.C. statehood
The chain of command goes through the Army secretary to the president, who spent at least part of the afternoon sending mixed signals to the rioters, calling them “very special.”
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Pelosi taps retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré to conduct Capitol security review
Pelosi said Honoré, who has accepted her request, will review the Capitol “security infrastructure, interagency processes and command and control.”
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Troops are sleeping in the Capitol. It’s been a rare sight since the Civil War
But a socially distanced line began to form at a market that serves hot food in the House basement when they heard they could pay for something better.
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National Guard troops deployed as pro-Trump mob swarms Capitol
to quell protests outside the White House last summer, were noticeably absent.