WASHINGTON — A House panel on Tuesday unveiled a $649 billion defense spending bill for next year's Pentagon budget that funds the nation's wars...
Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 05.25.2011
I have taken a quick look at the brand, spanking new 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Conference Report - the bill with the final say on how much money will be dealt to the Pentagon.
David M. Walker | Posted 05.25.2011
Even if we pull all our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and crack down on DoD waste, the savings would still only get the government a relatively small fraction of the way toward restoring overall fiscal sustainability.
Wall Street Journal | JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
While President Barack Obama still faces stiff headwinds on a range of major legislation on his agenda, he has been signing into law a slew of smaller...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Senate headed for a Saturday morning vote on a package that funds the Pentagon and keeps other key programs, including benefits...
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 05.25.2011
43% of homeless males over 25 are veterans. What kind of a country are we when the men and women who fight for us overseas return to a system that neglects and discards them at home?
AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama granted the Pentagon new power to rein in wasteful defense spending Friday, a change he said was long overdu...
AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 07.31.2011