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He conveyed officials’ concern that U.S. sub manufacturers lack the workforce and capacity to build two attack subs this fiscal year and deliver them on what he called "a reasonable schedule."
While it is sporting fun to poke Congress about its languid schedule, such as it is, with its Monday or Tuesday fly-in and Thursday jet-fume-fueled flurry of get-out-of-town activity, outlanders and insiders
funding increases for defense research and procurement include some programs netting hundreds of millions each — such as $1.2 billion in the Senate bill to start building a destroyer ahead of the Navy’s schedule
And a seven-week delay or longer could set back the schedule for providing them later. But that is not the same as cutting off something ready to be put on a ship or an airplane tomorrow.
Last week, leadership had to hastily pull the rule from the floor schedule amid ongoing conservative opposition to issues unrelated to military funding.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Zelenskyy had requested another chance to address a joint meeting of Congress, but said there was no time to clear the floor schedule.
Doing so would have required submitting a petition signed by at least 16 senators, potentially circumventing Schumer’s refusal to schedule a vote.
most senators sidestepped the topic during Allvin’s hearing, those who didn’t dug into their respective camps, with Democrats calling for an end to the hold and Republicans pushing chamber leadership to schedule
consideration in a vote last week, proposes spending additions and subtractions worth billions of dollars that may or may not be supported by Senate appropriators, who have yet to mark up their bill or even schedule
billion cap for defense spending in fiscal 2024 will change the trajectory of the annual defense authorization bill, which the House’s defense panels are aiming to mark up in June, though an official schedule