If all goes according to plan, 400 new, deadly and nuclear-tipped LGM-35A Sentinel missiles will be lowered into refurbished silos scattered across western Nebraska and four other states beginning in 2029. They will replace a similar number of now-outmoded Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles that have been poised in those same silos for the past 50 years. https://omaha.com/news/stat... Read More »
International non-stop flights are likely on the way to Omaha’s Eppley Airfield, thanks to additional funding from Congress. U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer and Congressman Don Bacon notified the Omaha Airport Authority Wednesday that Eppley will receive $7 million in community project funding with the passage of this year’s Consolidated Appropriations Act. https://www.knopnews2.com/2024/03/13/omahas-eppley... Read More »
Unemployed military spouses could have child care fully paid for during their job search under a proposal being crafted by a leading lawmaker. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee's military quality-of-life panel, is advocating for what she has termed a "GI Bill for child care." The proposal would provide grants of up to $15,000 per kid to cover ch... Read More »
Home Democrats try to drive a flooring vote on a bipartisan Senate invoice that would supply assist to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, since Home Republican leaders have been resisting strain to take up the laws. https://pressnewsagency.org/home-democrats-attempt-to-drive-flooring-vote-on-overseas-assist-for-ukraine-israel-taiwan/ Read More »
China now has the world’s largest arsenal of hypersonic missiles, missiles capable of striking U.S. targets with nuclear and conventional warheads, a U.S. intelligence analyst told Congress on Tuesday. Russia has also deployed three types of ultra-high-speed maneuvering weapons that can also be equipped with nuclear or conventional warheads and fired the first hypersonic weapon in combat against c... Read More »
House lawmakers are circulation two separate discharge petitions to bring some of Ukraine aid bill to the floor, setting the stage for a drawn-out fights as Congress pushes to provide increased funding to the wartorn country. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2917280/fight-ukraine-aid-complicated-dueling-petitions-house/ Read More »
Bacon Issues Response to Biden’s SOTU Washington. – Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02) issued the following response after President Biden’s State of the Union Address: "Pres. Biden missed the mark tonight on border security and inflation. He failed to acknowledge his responsibly for the mess at our borders. He ended the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy; he sued the State of Texas for protecting itself and this cou... Read More »
As NASA’s planetary science programs face reduced budgets this year and uncertain prospects for next year, advocates in Congress are banding together to build up support for them. Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) announced March 6 that they were restarting a Planetary Science Caucus in Congress, serving as its co-chairs, with more than a dozen other members. https://spacenews.com/n... Read More »
The bipartisan Planetary Science Caucus is being led by Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., and Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb. The group aims to advance policies and promote federal investment in space science, which the caucus said is “critical to our economy, national security, and American leadership in science and technology.” https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/lawmakers-announce-caucus-focused-space-planetar... Read More »
Alexei Navalny first came to America, to Dallas, in 2005, hosted by Open World, a Congressional Office for International Leadership exchange program for emerging world leaders. Even then, in his late 20s, the passion and courage and conviction and charisma and inspiration that would later define Alexei Navalny to the world and ultimately doom him in his homeland were already evident. https://thehi... Read More »
Sewage overflows in restrooms, methane gas leaks, mold, brown tap water, extreme temperatures, bedbugs, rodents and cockroaches. These are just some of the conditions that our servicemembers have been subjected to in their barracks. The fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act required the Government Accountability Office to review the Department of Defense’s efforts to maintain and improve ... Read More »
On Friday, U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) and U.S. Representatives Mike Flood (NE-01), Don Bacon (NE-02), and Adrian Smith (NE-03) announced that their staff will hold Service Academy Days in North Platte, Scottsbluff, Grand Island, Norfolk, Bellevue, and Omaha. “As a veteran who served nearly 30 years in the Air Force, I cannot share enough how much my military care... Read More »
Republican Rep. Don Bacon, who is also running in a swing district in Nebraska, said, “I want to give those who want to be moms and dads that opportunity. Therefore, I will not support restrictions to IVF.”https://krdo.com/news/2024/02/23/republicans-struggle-to-respond-to-alabama-embryo-ruling-2/ Read More »
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) told Axios that he also does “not support restrictions on IVF” because he wants to “give those who want to be moms and dads that opportunity.”https://freeread.causeaction.com/2024/02/23/gop-lawmaker-moves-to-protect-ivf-after-alabama-supreme-court-declares-embryos-are-children/ Read More »
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers released a $66.3 billion foreign aid and border package Friday that backers hope will be an alternative to the Senate-passed national security supplemental. The newly unveiled legislation includes military-only assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan — a departure from the $95.3 billion bill championed by senators that also has money designated for humanitar... Read More »