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Coast Guard’s striking new HQ set to open its doors
The U.S. Coast Guard's new headquarters occupy a hillside overlooking the Anacostia River and downtown Washington, D.C. Digging out the Coast Guard portion alone involved the largest excavation project...
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House Rules Committee Plans ‘Limited’ Amendments for Defense Appropriations Bill
House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, (right) plans to limit the number and kinds of amendments members can offer on the floor to a 2014 defense spending bill. (Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll...
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Breaking: Sen. Chuck Schumer Shuns an Open Microphone
Sen. Chuck Schumer at the mics last Thursday after a meeting at the White House. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)Some say the most dangerous place in Washington to stand is between Sen. Chuck Schumer and a...
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SASC To Grill Top Officers In Double Job Interview. There Will Be Live Tweeting.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey (right) greets Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., before a June 4 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. He's back Thursday morning for his re-confirmation hearing....
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Ash Carter Bemoans Death of DC Defense Consensus
The big news coming out of the first day of the annual Aspen Security Summit held in the bucolic mountain resort town on July 18 was the sweeping changes in how the Pentagon continues to form its...
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What Is John McCain’s Beef With Gen. Dempsey Really All About?
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, left, and Sen. John McCain butted heads on the topic of US intervention in Syria during Dempsey's confirmation hearing last Thursday....
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New Arms Are Popping Up All Over The Pacific. HASC Told That’s ‘Worrisome.’
Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force ships are part of the nation's more aggressive security plan. (JMSDF photo) Lawmakers and analysts on Wednesday described the Obama administration’s Asia-Pacific...
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Army’s Giant Surveillance Blimp to Start Tracking Objects in DC Region
While Congress debates the merits of spending tens of millions of dollars to add missile interceptors on the East Coast while increasing the number already in place out West, a long-running...
View ArticleVideo of the Day – 25 July 2013 – House NSA Debate
By recent standards, an extraordinary thing happened early Wednesday evening on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. For about one hour, Republicans and Democrats engaged in a thoughtful,...
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Pro-Defense Lawmakers Vote Against NSA. Would They Vote Against Your Program,...
Final vote tally on Wednesday's House amendment that would have de-funded a controversial NSA anti-terrorism program. (Staff image via C-SPAN via YouTube) For political junkies, this will be the most...
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Is Sen. McCain Rounding Up an Anti-Sequester Posse to Confront House Tea...
There are new signs a fight is brewing between House GOP tea party members and moderate Senate Republicans over sequestration and other budgetary issues. (Image by Defense News staff) As Congress...
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Carter, Winnefeld to Brief House Panel on SCMR Findings
Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Adm. Sandy Winnefeld, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discuss the Defense Strategic Guidance on Jan. 5, 2012. (DOD Photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo)...
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Congress, White House Have Learned Lessons About Fiscal Fights, Right? Wrong.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Sunday on "NBC" that President Obama will not sign any fiscal legislation that cuts domestic programs to fund defense programs. (William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via...
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Odds of Shutdown-Avoiding and CR Deals? Pretty Good. Odds Sequestration is...
Will House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, heed a call that came from leading conservatives late Monday to essentially ensure a government shutdown? (Alex...
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DoD to Issue New Afghan Report as Endgame Looms
Photo: Paul McLeary At 2pm today the Pentagon will release its latest set of metrics on how the nation-building effort tin Afghanistan is going, the first such Congressionally-mandated update since...
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Two GOP Senators Join McCain, Vote Against Gen. Dempsey’s Nomination
Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., (right) joined Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in voting against the nomination of Gen. Martin Dempsey for a second two-year term as Joint Chiefs chairman. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll...
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McKeon: “We’re acting like children” on Snowden
Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) listens as Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Adm. James Winnefeld, Jr, USN, testify before the House Armed Services Committee about the Defense...
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Do You Fear Sen. Mikulski? The Leader of the Free World Does.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., pictured recently with other Democratic leaders. Her direct style has garnered her the respect of many in Washington, and the fear of others -- including the president....
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Rand Paul Signals, As President, He Would ‘Stand Up To’ U.S. Defense Sector
Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul wonders why President Obama is, as he sees it, unwilling to "stand up to" the "military-industrial complex." (Richard Ellis/Getty Images) The field for the 2016 GOP...
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Obama And McCain: Once A Rivalry, Now A ‘Bromance’
President Obama (left) and Sen. John McCain, pictured during the 2008 presidential campaign, are becoming allies on a number of national security and domestic issues. Jay Leon on Monday dubbed the...
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