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… 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 »
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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read more »
