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Air Force officials testified on their branch’s fiscal year 2014 budget request.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey, and Undersecretary Robert Hale testified about the president’s fiscal year 2014 defense budget request. …

Senior military leaders testified on the impact of sequestration budget cuts on the Defense Department. “Sequestration,” a legal procedure in which every federal agency has the same percenta…

Defense Secretary Gates and Joint Chiefs Chair Mike Mullen testified about the president’s budget request for fiscal year 2012, totaling $553 billion. They also talked about operations in Af…

House members debated the fiscal year 2010 war supplemental and disaster spending.

A portion of the House debate on an amendment striking funding for F-22 fighter jets from the defense spending bill was shown.

The House and Senate Appropriations Committee held a conference meeting on the Fiscal Year 2009 supplemental budget for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Pandemic Flu. Members debated various …

House and Senate conferees met to negotiate compromise language on a supplemental spending bill for military operations in Iraq. They agreed on language that provided funding, but set a goal…

Defense Department officials testified about fiscal year 2008 department budget requests, military operations and readiness, personnel issues, and future planning priorities. They also talke…

The House Appropriations Committee marked up the fiscal year 2007 supplemental appropriations for Iraq. Several members presented proposed amendments and revisions to the emergency spending …

The House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee held a hearing on the U.S. Army portion of the proposed fiscal year 2007 war supplemental appropriations. Witnesses testified about operations i…

Committee members met to consider amendments, provisions, and potential alterations to the supplemental spending request by the Department of Defense for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Secretary Rumsfeld and other Defense Department officials testified about the department’s proposed fiscal year 2005 budget of $68.9 billion. Other topics included a lack of intelligence per…

Members met to offer amendments and mark up emergency supplemental spending legislation resulting from war in Iraq. Among the topice they addressed were funding for military operations, leve…

A portion was shown of the House Rules Committee hearing on the Defense and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations legislation. Reps. Young and Obey, chair and ranking member, respectively, o…

House and Senate Appropriations Committee members met to discuss the 1999 Supplemental Appropriations Bill. The bill would allow for $11.6 billion to fund the action in Yugoslavia, as well a…

The House Appropriations Committee approved a $13 billion bill to provide funding for military action in Yugoslavia, as well as a military pay raise and other defense items.

Rep. bob Livingston, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, and Rep. Bill Young, chair of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, talked with reporters about the status of Fiscal Year…

The House of Representatives took up the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill and the Fiscal Year 1992 Intelligence Authorizations Bill.