Debate on the massive defense bill that authorizes Pentagon programs is expected to continue through the end of the week after the Senate finally moved to consider the bill on Wednesday. So far, with the help of 11 Republicans, the Democratic-controlled chamber has passed a key measure restoring the Pentagon’s...
The White House is threatening a veto of the defense bill currently on the Senate floor if the measure is not changed, an official statement said Thursday. The statement on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) lists a number of objections to the legislation, including language which prohibits the use...
The Pentagon is soaking up most of the attention around the looming budget cuts that would take place at the start of the New Year, but there are a host of other national security programs caught up in the fiscal cliff debate, too. Sequestration would also mean fewer FBI agents,...
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said that “plans are nothing, planning is everything.” He knew the process of planning was key and in the decades since, the Pentagon has excelled at nothing so much as planning for every conceivable – and sometimes inconceivable – contingency. So it’s more than a...
How can Washington solve a problem when it keeps changing the definition? First it was called global warming. Then it morphed into climate change. Then “global weirding” was coined by some environmentalists and popularized (however briefly) by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in 2010. Then it disappeared altogether from...
Per the work of Cook Political Report’s David Wasserman, Obama’s national lead over Romney continues to expand as votes keep coming in. It’s now Obama 50.9%, Romney 47.4%. That’s a bigger (and more decisive) margin than Bush’s victory over John Kerry in 2004 (which was Bush 50.7% and Kerry 48.2%)....
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