Agriculture Close To Avoiding Furloughs
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Feds Respond to Oklahoma Tornadoes
Making Government 'Simpler'
OK Senators Leery of Unfunded Tornado Relief
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Defense secretary visits a tense Afghanistan
March 14, 2012 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta landed in Afghanistan overnight for a long-planned visit that suddenly has new urgency. Panetta is the first top U.S. official to visit Afghanistan since this weekend's murder of 16 Afghan civilians, allegedly by a U.S. soldier who turned himself in, has caused serious doubts in Washington ...
Administration will weather latest Afghan storm
February 28, 2012 For years, the Afghanistan war has suffered through unpopular civilian casualties, night raids, drone strikes, illiterate partner-soldiers, and not-so-friendly fire by trigger-happy uniformed Afghan security forces. It’s unlikely the current firestorm over the U.S. military’s accidental burning of Korans will have political legs in Washington, much less among disinterested U.S. ...
Pentagon's top public affairs official steps down
February 24, 2012 Doug Wilson, the Pentagon's top public affairs official, announced he is stepping down next month. "I have enjoyed a wonderful career in foreign policy and communications," Wilson, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, told National Journal, "and so far I have worked virtually without interruption for almost 40 years ...
Homeland security spending request holds level
February 13, 2012 In a budget the administration says commits to border and aviation security, prepares for disaster relief, and boosts cyber security, the White House on Monday requested $39.5 billion for the Homeland Security Department next year, just a half-a-percent decrease from current spending. President Obama asks for $6.1 billion in disaster ...
President requests 'more disciplined' $613 billion Defense budget
February 13, 2012 President Obama's defense budget of $613.9 billion for fiscal 2013 reflects the downsizing of America's wars abroad and the size of its military, as well as its plans to increase and entrench smaller counter terrorism, special operations and high-tech capabilities globally. The cut -- a reduction of $40 billion, or ...
'Premature' to use military force against Iran, Joint Chiefs chairman says
January 26, 2012 The current U.S.-led push to force Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions through steadily increasing economic and diplomatic pressure is beginning to show results and it would be "premature" to resort to military force, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in an interview on ...
Dempsey says new Pentagon budget will balance past lessons, future threats
January 26, 2012 The Pentagon budget which will be released on Thursday reflects a broad attempt to prepare for the threats facing the country after Iraq and Afghanistan in the new era of fiscal austerity, the nation’s top military officers said in an exclusive interview. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs ...
President touts bin Laden killing, end of Iraq war in speech
January 24, 2012 Calling for a post-war era of unity and selflessness reportedly not seen since the wake of World War II, President Obama led and closed his State of the Union address with an invocation of the impressive list of national security accomplishments under his watch in the past year. "For the ...
Pentagon pulling two brigades from Europe
January 13, 2012 The U.S. will pull two brigades out of Europe, in one of the Pentagon's first concrete moves toward fulfilling a new global posture and budget savings requirements. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday that the move allows the Army to begin deploying forces on a rotational basis, a shift ...
U.S. formally ends Iraq war
December 15, 2011 BAGHDAD-The U.S. military closed its headquarters in Iraq on Thursday with a formal ceremony marking the end of the Iraq War, nearly nine years after invading the country and toppling Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. In a Baghdad ceremony with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...
