Washington Report February 04, 2020 Senate Veterans Committee Approves Series of Bills The Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee has unanimously passed a series of bipartisan bills aimed at helping veteran employment, bolstering suicide... Read More Details
Washington Report January 21, 2020 Pick for Army Under Secretary Fields Questions in Senate Hearing James McPherson, the president’s nominee to be under secretary of the Army, answered questions about great power competition, personnel issues... Read More Details
Washington Report December 10, 2019 Congress Reaches NDAA Compromise; Guard Items Included Republicans and Democrats in Congress reached a compromise on the annual defense policy bill, seemingly ending a long stalemate that threatened to... Read More Details
Washington Report December 03, 2019 Clock Ticking on Spending Bills Congressional leaders have just 17 days to reach a deal to avoid a government shutdown before year’s end. With both the House and Senate in session... Read More Details
Washington Report November 26, 2019 Mission: Readiness Group Marks Decade of Service When Mission: Readiness launched in 2009, the nonpartisan organization counted only a few more than a dozen retired generals and admirals in its... Read More Details
Washington Report November 12, 2019 Military Pay Raise Safe, Even as Congressional Stalemate Continues Republicans and Democrats are at odds in Congress over the border wall and impeachment hearings — among other issues — causing defense leaders to... Read More Details
Washington Report October 08, 2019 Air Guard to Test New Tuition Assistance Program Fourteen states will participate in a pilot program to begin providing tuition assistance to members of their state’s Air National Guard. Sen. John... Read More Details
Washington Report October 01, 2019 Senate Defense Appropriations Include Funding for Guard Programs Senate appropriators would provide funding to help grow the Army and Air National Guard and earmarked billions for new and upgraded equipment in a... Read More Details
Washington Report September 24, 2019 Stopgap Spending Bill Expected to Avert Shutdown President Donald Trump will sign a continuing resolution if it passes the Senate later this week, avoiding another partial government shutdown and... Read More Details
Washington Report September 24, 2019 House, Senate Working to Settle NDAA Differences Dozens of lawmakers have begun meeting to hammer out a compromise fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act. The joint conference committee is... Read More Details
Washington Report September 17, 2019 Senate Committee Grills Army, Air Force Secretary Nominees Acting Army secretary Ryan D. McCarthy and former ambassador Barbara Barrett testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday about their... Read More Details
Washington Report September 10, 2019 Congress Returns, but Likely Won’t Hit NDAA Deadline Congress is back in session following a month-long break and now faces an ambitious goal of reaching a compromise on the annual defense policy bill... Read More Details
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