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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has outlined his top legislative priorities for fiscal year 2007, offering guidance to those in the Pentagon who are crafting proposals for changing the law so the military can have more flexibility in fighting global terrorism and closer partnerships with civilian federal agencies in homeland security operations.
Rep. Ike Skelton (MO), the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, announced today he met this morning with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and received assurances that the Pentagon has no plans to propose changes to the Posse Comitatus Act.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today called the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina the greatest disaster recovery effort in American history, and said claims that the military could not help ravished areas quicker because it is stretched thin by wars overseas are "flat wrong."
The Base Realignment and Closure Commission today voted against shutting down the New London submarine base in Groton, CT, and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, ME.
The Defense Department has drafted an overarching vision for future warfare that calls for the military to prepare for a wider range of threats, develop a more sophisticated view of enemy combatants and enhance its ability to work with other federal agencies before and after a conflict.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice unveiled a package of proposals last week that if approved by Congress would give the department she runs a dramatic new look by merging some organizations and beefing up others.
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has asked President Bush to designate Jerald Paul as the acting chief of the nonproliferation division at the National Nuclear Security Administration, according to an NNSA spokesman.
President Bush has nominated Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander to be the next director of the National Security Agency and the chief of the Central Security Service at Ft. Meade, MD, the Pentagon announced today.
Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton, the Armed Services Committee's ranking Democrat, took to the House floor today to sound alarms about slow progress in training Iraqi security forces and problems facing the Army as it scrambles for recruits to fight overseas.
In the next 24 hours, Czech and Polish officials will lead the latest Proliferation Security Initiative exercise, during which they will practice stopping a chemical weapons shipment bound for the Middle East, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today.
House and Senate appropriations conferees yesterday approved fiscal year 2005 emergency supplemental legislation that would provide $82 billion for the war on terrorism, as well as other defense-related activities and tsunami relief.
House Armed Services subcommittees will begin the process of marking up the fiscal year 2006 defense authorization bill on May 10, according to a schedule distributed to lawmakers last week by committee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA).
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairwoman Susan Collins (R-ME) and Ranking Member Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) have asked congressional auditors to investigate the Defense Department's response to a recent anthrax scare at the Pentagon's Remote Delivery Facility in Arlington, VA.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has transferred program management and support responsibilities for Defense Department business transformation from the Pentagon comptroller to the office of the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics.
By the end of fiscal year 2006, National Nuclear Security Administration officials expect to achieve full compliance with security requirements adopted two years ago to better protect agency facilities from terrorists, NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks told lawmakers today.
Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) will introduce legislation today to create a new unified intelligence command within the Defense Department.
President Bush today called on Syria to withdraw all its troops and intelligence personnel from Lebanon before parliamentary elections take place in the occupied nation this spring.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) is calling for a congressional investigation into Bush administration restrictions on releasing unclassified information to the public through the use of designations like "for official use only."
U.S. Joint Forces Command has given lawmakers a list of unfunded requirements for fiscal year 2006 -- totaling nearly $98 million -- that includes joint training for the war on terrorism.
Members of the congressional Blue Dog Coalition are backing proposed legislation they say will ensure accountability in spending fiscal year 2005 supplemental funds for Iraq and Afghanistan.