Defense
Chertoff nomination stalls over Guantanamo Bay questions
Holdup over contentious FBI memo and debate on class-action overhaul measure pushes back Senate vote until next week.
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DHS budget puts administration on collision course with lawmakers, airlines
Proposed 2006 budget strengthens surveillance and detention operations, while reducing grants for first responders.
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Senator: Base-closing process won't be as dire as expected
After meeting with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said that return of troops from garrisons overseas would lessen adverse impact at home.
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Appropriators modify plan for military quality of life panel
Plan to eliminate subcommmittees keeps military personnel accounts within the Defense appropriations bill.
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Pentagon extends deadline for tanker modernization study
Study supposed to examine alternatives for modernizing Air Force's aging fleet of aerial refueling tankers.
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Homeland Security budget consolidates programs, creates more offices
Critics say proposed budget severely underfunds critical homeland security efforts, such as border security and local grants.
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Defense funding cuts may be just the beginning
Next year's request will be the one that translates sweeping changes outlined in the Pentagon's forthcoming quadrennial defense review into money.
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Defense budget proposal boosts benefits
Bush administration’s $419 billion request, almost 5 percent more than last year, also curtails spending on some weapons systems.
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DHS experience is cautionary tale for new intelligence director
Whoever takes over as the new chief of the intelligence apparatus could learn from the early, faltering steps of the Homeland Security Department.
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Army budget request might seek little for force protection
Congressional sources say the Pentagon will seek a relatively small $100 million increase despite criticism the Army hasn't supplied critical equipment to soldiers in Iraq.
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Outgoing Homeland Security official cites need for better planning
DHS has done a good job of hashing out short-term policy matters, but long-term planning has lagged, says Assistant Secretary C. Stewart Verdery Jr.
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Deputy Defense secretary warns of 'substantial' supplemental request
Paul Wolfowitz says amount of additional fiscal 2006 funding needed "would be a wild guess at this point."
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Homeland Security nominee vows to meet with unions
Michael Chertoff acknowledges “controversy and concern” about recently announced overhaul of the department’s personnel system.
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War supplemental might target military life insurance sales
Move follows allegations that the Army failed to process hundreds of supplemental life insurance policies for activated Army personnel deployed to dangerous destinations abroad.
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Group calls for increase in Army and Marine troop levels
Project for the New American Century seeks boost of at least 25,000 troops each year over the next several years, says administration has "unfortunately resisted" increases.
Defense
House leaders seek to add military 'quality of life' panel
GOP leaders aim to place such issues at the forefront of the domestic appropriations agenda, ahead of education, health research and other social programs.
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