Topic: Buck McKeon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense cuts that begin in the 2012 budget will ultimately cost up to 800,000 jobs, and additional spending reductions could push that figure to 1.5 million over the next decade, a top Republican lawmaker testified on Tuesday.Representative Buck McKeon, ...
Buck McKeon has said he would rather pass no defense bill at all than one which doesn't ban marriage for gay service membersRep. Buck McKeon, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has said he would rather pass no defense bill ...
Republican Reps. Buck McKeon and Joe Wilson are calling for a delay in ending 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'Republican Reps. Buck McKeon and Joe Wilson are calling for a delay in ending “Don't Ask, Don't Tell,” the policy set to expire on Tuesday ...
The deal to avert a US debt default should have little effect on the Pentagon's huge budget in the short term, but leaves the door open to sharp cuts that could force a strategy overhaul, experts say.Signed into law by President Barack ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co and Rolls Royce Group Plc asked the Pentagon on Thursday to let them resume development, at their own expense, of a controversial alternate engine for the multinational F-35 fighter jet.At stake is potential business that General ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. arms buyer said he was dissatisfied with cost overruns in the United Technologies Corp Pratt & Whitney engine powering the multinational F-35 fighter jet.But Ashton Carter, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, repeated Pentagon opposition to funding ...
At a House Armed Services Committee hearing, testimony by the military's four service chief left Chairman Buck McKeon reelingAt a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, testimony by the military's four service chief left Chairman Buck McKeon reeling. Last year, Congress ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said billions of dollars could be saved from the defense budget by cutting lawmakers' pet projects, known as earmarks, and fixing troubled arms programs.McCain told a foreign ...
Both sides of Congress are expected this week to take up key votes on repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Both sides of Congress are expected this week to take up key votes on repeal of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell,” the 1993 ...
Gates poses overhaul of sensitive export list to keep weapons from enemies, share with alliesThe government will update a Cold War-era rule book that decides which U.S. technologies and widgets may be sold abroad, revamping a system criticized as too strict and ...
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