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Senators eye pay boost for junior troops, more funds for housing fixes
Both House and Senate lawmakers want to pass targeted pay raises for junior enlisted troops, but budget caps may complicate those plans.
GOP lawmakers fret over Afghanistan drawdown plans
With talk of a U.S. troop drawdown in Afghanistan on the horizon, some Republican lawmakers are cautioning the Trump administration against pulling out too many troops, too quickly.
By Joe Gould
In nuclear spending fight, it’s Trump’s Hill allies vs. White House budget office
Key Republicans in Congress are appealing to President Donald Trump for a significant budget boost for nuclear modernization.
This week in Congress: Senate impeachment trial coming soon
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of Jan. 13, 2020.
HASC Chairman Adam Smith on Mideast wars, acquisition reform and 2020 elections
Rep. Adam Smith talks national security, the presidential race and the next defense authorization bill.
By Joe Gould
Clemency for war criminals an ‘insult’ to the military, lawmaker argues
A top Senate Democrat says pardons, forgiveness should not have been given to service members embroiled in three controversial cases.
What’s in the emergency defense policy bill?
Here's the skinny on the “skinny” version of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act from Sen. Jim Inhofe.
Inhofe to offer ‘skinny’ defense policy bill as backup plan
The Senate Armed Serviced Committee chairman says he will offer a bare bones version of the 2020 defense policy bill this week.
By Joe Gould
'ISIS will be back.’ Lawmakers voice Syria fears to Pentagon chiefs
House and Senate lawmakers on Thursday left Pentagon briefings on the crisis in Syria frustrated with the tangle of problems that came with President Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops from Syria and voicing new fears the Islamic State will regroup to wage terror.
By Joe Gould
Syria crisis slowing defense policy bill talks, Inhofe says
Negotiations over the fiscal 2020 NDAA have hit a speed bump the size of northern Syria, according to the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
By Joe Gould
Esper sees progress to fill top Pentagon vacancies
Congress and the White House are working to fill senior vacancies at the Pentagon.
By Joe Gould