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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, and Defense Comptroller Mike McCord testified at a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing o…

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin defended the president’s 2024 budget for the agency and reiterated it is a proposal that prepares the U.S. for any potential conflict and competition with Chin…

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Mark Milley reiterated U.S. support for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, during a budget hearing before the House App…

Officials from all of the military branches testified at a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing on the impact of short-term continuing budget resolutions on the military. Top…

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Mark Mille testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense on the Defense Department’s fiscal year 20…

National Guard Bureau Chief General Daniel Hokanson testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense regarding the National Guard’s fiscal year 2022 budget request. General …

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan testified on the agency’s fiscal year 2020 budget request. Also testifying before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense were Joint Chiefs…

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…

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 …

Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte testified about the fiscal year 2008 emergency supplemental budget request for Iraq and Afghanistan.

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…