“This bill goes a long way to fixing that.”Advertisement: The bill sets key Pentagon policy that lawmakers will attempt to fund through a follow-up appropriations bill. The overall spending tracks the numbers established in a 2023 agreement that then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached with...
The committee today, however, spent most of its hearing on the bill arguing over its inclusion of "conservative priorities" related to abortion, DEI policies and climate change. Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, said the bill’s conservative poli...
House GOP leadership has delayed a vote on the fiscal year 2024 defense appropriations bill amid in-fighting over government spending and a looming federal shutdown. House committee staffers said the first procedural vote on the bill, which is aligned with President Biden's request for $886 ...
House panel approves defense bill in face of veto threat.Reports that the House Appropriations Committee disregarded the threat of Bill Clinton's veto and approved the defense bill. Background information on the bill; Advantages of the bill; Information on other amendments that were rejected.Towell...
The must-pass annual defense policy bill is often the vehicle by which lawmakers try to include legislation that otherwise might languish. Lawmakers considered more than 400 amendments on the floor this week. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., proposed an amendment t...
The bill sets key Pentagon policy that lawmakers will attempt to fund through a follow-up appropriations bill. The overall spending tracks the numbers established in a 2023 agreement that then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield reached with President Bid...
House easily passes Defense Appropriations billReports on the US House of Representatives's passage of the Defense Appropriations bill that would provide new budget authority for the Department of Defense in fiscal ...
The House's fiscal year 2021 defense appropriations bill would bar the Defense Department, including the National Security Agency, from paying or requiring companies to add security vulnerabilities, such as "backdoors" for encrypted communications, to their products. The House voted to adop...
Mac Thornberry, chairman of the House Armed Service Committee, on Tuesday urged Congress to work out an appropriations bill to pave the way for the NDAA. "Securing those appropriations must be Congress' top priority before the year ends," the Republican representative said in a statement. ...
The authorization bill is considered must-pass legislation each year for Congress and contains a host of pay authorizations and policy changes that supplement the annual defense appropriations process (which actually supplies funding for those initiatives). ...