Members of Congress are increasingly expressing frustration at what they see as back-of-the-hand treatment by the Bush administration on national security, defense and foreign policy issues.
A newly revised proposal from the Defense Department on controversial "Buy American" legislative language has failed to assuage critics at other agencies.
An initiative to integrate 79 military pay and personnel systems into one system moved forward Monday when Pentagon officials announced that Northrop Grumman would take the project into its implementation phase.