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  Showdown in December

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 10:09 PM on Mar 01, 2012

  Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, put the debate over defense spending in stark terms. Come December, he says Republicans may have to... Read More >>

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  Pentagon Spending -- Where it Winds Up

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 9:08 PM on Feb 01, 2012

  The Center for Security Policy has a new report designed to assist lobbying efforts against the threatened $1 trillion in reduced military spending over the next 10 years under the... Read More >>

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  Out of Afghanistan

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 9:15 PM on Oct 06, 2011

  Ten years after the start of the war in Afghanistan, lawmakers from both parties are coming together again to say it’s time to end it.The anti-Afghanistan war movement inclu... Read More >>

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  Of Budgets, Politics, and Number Crunching

  Posted by Paul McLeary 6:51 PM on Sep 27, 2011

  As most of you have already read, a report released on Friday by the Republican majority on the House Armed Services Committee offers a “worst-case scenario” look at ... Read More >>

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  Defense Looms Large In Grand Budget Deal

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 3:49 PM on Aug 01, 2011

  U.S. defense spending is front and center in the grand Washington deal to avert global economic disaster.The first cut is not so deep. Over 10 years, the deal recommends a $350 bil... Read More >>

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  War Powers Plea

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 2:54 PM on May 11, 2011

  As a kickoff to the start of the defense budget season in Congress, the House Armed Services Committee is rapping the president on the knuckles for failing to consult with Congress... Read More >>

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  The Budget Bill's Coming

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 9:52 PM on Apr 11, 2011

  The first detailed look at the spending bill born of negotiations that held off a federal government shutdown is coming tonight, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said during a hearing... Read More >>

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  Gates Stops JSF F136 Work; GE Picks Fight

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 5:07 PM on Mar 24, 2011

  Holy Moses. The Pentagon has stopped work on the JSF program, and Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is predictably going ballistic.So... Read More >>

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  JSF Hearing Closed

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 1:56 PM on Dec 16, 2009

  At the last minute, the Senate canceled a public hearing on the Joint Strike Fighter program that was to have taken place today. Instead, the scheduled witnesses - including procur... Read More >>

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  Export Reforms: Let the Revolution Begin

  Posted by Michael Bruno 8:58 PM on Dec 15, 2009

  Revolutions are rarely tidy affairs.Back in 2005, in the belly of the U.S. Capitol, a senior aerospace and defense industry executive was busy pleading the case for Washington to a... Read More >>

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