Defense
Panel setting stage for Pentagon budget boost
House Armed Services Committee might use its own in-depth review of U.S. armed forces and security threats as leverage to ask for additional funding.
Defense
Lawmaker seeks clarification of military's 'broader role' in disasters
House Armed Services chair wants to know if President Bush supports revising Posse Comitatus law.
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Pentagon drops plan to shift funds from armored vehicle program
Measure would have temporarily shifted money from effort to produced armored Humvees to fund Army programs related to ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Bush sends base-closing list to Congress with his approval
Congress not expected to reject independent commission's recomendations.
Defense
Senator asks Pentagon to revisit ban on military's domestic police powers
John Warner, R-Va., Seeks review of how president may legally circumvent an 1878 law prohibiting the military from participating in law enforcement activities at home.
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House Armed Services to launch own Defense review
Analysis will overlook budget constraints, committee chairman says.
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Senator sees possible Katrina impact on troop and base closure decisions
Armed Services chief says Katrina might require some "rethinking" of base closure commission's recommendations.
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Senate Armed Services panel plans hearings on Pentagon nominees
The panel will vote on Michael Wynne and Donald Winter, President Bush's picks to head the Air Force and Navy, respectively
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BRAC panel calls closure round premature
Commissioners say Pentagon closures should have been put off until Pentagon completed review of defense strategy.
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Base closure list heads to Bush amid legal rulings
Flurry of lawsuits filed at state level prompt varying responses from courts.
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Base-closing foes focus on Congress as panel prepares list
Lawmakers and an army of hired guns mount a final campaign to reverse the Pentagon's recommended closures.
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Connecticut lawmakers say sentiment growing to halt base closings
Sen. Lieberman says "there's a real chance that Congress will rise up against" the Pentagon's base closing proposals.
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States say Justice opinion not the final word on Air Guard
Guard officials say they will continue to meet with the BRAC panel.
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Air Guard plan would limit Pentagon's proposed closures
Plan would allow every state to keep a flying mission.
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Pentagon defends environmental estimates for closing bases
Critics say cost of cleaning up shuttered military installations will cut deeply into estimated savings of closing bases.
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Maine lawmakers make last-ditch pitch to save Naval Air Base
Group argued that Brunswick Naval Air Station is vital to homeland defense.
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Connecticut lawmakers offer defense of New London base
Group tries to convince BRAC panel to leave submarine base intact.
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Senator: BRAC amendments delayed defense authorization vote
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist unsuccessfully tried to end debate and prevent consideration of base closure-related amendments to defense measure.
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