Lawmakers are racing Friday to pass the final spending package needed for the current budget year, a long overdue action that will set funding for federal agencies and push any threats of a government shutdown to the fall.
With spending set to expire for several key federal agencies at midnight Friday, the House and Senate are expected to take up to spare a $1.2 trillion measure that… Read more »
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… 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… 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… 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… 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 »
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 »
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 »
