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Senate panel adopts Gillibrand’s military justice proposal
Such decisions are now made by a handful of generals and admirals in the chain of command.
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Congress · 117th Congress
House Republicans to offer new National Guard supplemental bill
Two senior House Republican appropriators plan to file legislation Friday that would pay back the National Guard the nearly half-billion dollars it cost to help defend the Capitol earlier this year, a
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Pentagon offered to pay National Guard’s Capitol security costs
Spending fracas In addition to the Womack-Calvert bill, the House in May passed a $1.9 billion supplemental spending measure that includes money for the Capitol Police, $521 million for the Guard
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House spending panel frets over future in Afghanistan
House lawmakers charged with setting the Pentagon’s budget are concerned about the fallout from the nearly complete U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, including the implications for U.S. security
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Lawmakers pan Biden’s first Space Force budget
In the report accompanying the fiscal 2022 defense appropriations bill, members of the House Appropriations Committee expressed concern and frustration over the lack of a coordinated strategy in
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Senate sets NDAA markups for mid-July
the Armed Services Committee’s Personnel panel, has spearheaded legislation that would take decisions on whether to prosecute serious cases, not just those involving sexual assault, out of the chain of command
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Military brass resists big changes to prosecution decisions
Gillibrand’s bill, and a similar one to be introduced in the House on Wednesday, would require that decisions on prosecuting most major crimes in the military — including sexual assault but also
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Democrats promise to do it all despite dissension in the ranks
‘Legitimacy and authenticity’ House Democratic Conference Chair Hakeem Jeffries echoed Schumer’s point and said Democratic messaging came straight from Biden.
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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.