Defense

The House Appropriations Committee kicked off appropriations season this week by starting to mark up their Fiscal Year 2016 bills at the same time...

Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) wrote a commentary published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday in which he decried the recently-passed budgets in the...

With the Murray-Ryan deal expiring at the end of September, the sequester will once again be a hot topic as lawmakers will be prompted to deal with...

A big discussion has ensued in both the House and Senate about defense spending, and for the FY 2016 budget, that has meant how much to increase war...

In order to resolve disagreement between defense hawks and fiscal hawks, the House will vote on two competing budgets with different approaches to...

There was a lot of discussion in the run-up to the release of the Senate budget about disputes within the Republican caucus over defense spending. The...

One of the most important functions of budget resolutions is to set the spending limits for the coming fiscal year. At first glance, the House budget...

President Obama sent a letter to Congress yesterday asking for a formal three-year authorization for a campaign against ISIS. At the same time, though...

After a more than a year-long process, the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission released its final report yesterday...

The biggest piece of deficit reduction that lawmakers have accomplished so far is the series of caps on annually appropriated discretionary spending...

The eagerly awaited $1.1 trillion "CRomnibus" bill was released yesterday, and given its far-reaching nature, many aspects are being scrutinized. From...

Before debating a potential "CRomnibus" bill to fund the government, lawmakers are ready to check one item off their lame-duck to-do list: a defense...