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Congress pushes the Defense Department to cover all of its Basic Allowance for Housing to put less financial strain on troops.

WASHINGTON — Through more than a dozen hearings, an 18-month investigation and a more than 800-page final report, the bipartisan House Jan. 6 select committee did something rare — it presented a single argument to the public.

The House Jan. 6 committee conveyed information to the public in innovative ways, with a coordinated presentation and unified narrative.

Pat Schroeder, the first woman to serve on the House Armed Services Committee, died this week at the age of 82.

House and Senate defense and spending panels will hold the first open hearings on Ukraine aid oversight since the war’s start.

The top Republicans on U.S. congressional foreign affairs and armed services committees pressed Democratic President Joe Biden on Thursday to include $2 billion in military assistance grants for Taiwan in his upcoming budget request.

WASHINGTON — Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley was booted from his perch on the powerful Armed Services Committee last month as retribution for delaying the confirmation of numerous Defense Department nominees last year, and for his role in challenging Mitch McConnell’s hold as the chamber’s top Republican, sources tell CQ…

Was it retribution or magnanimity? Accounts differ on Missouri Republican Josh Hawley's departure from the desirable Armed Services panel.

Boebert's move may have led to the standoff between Reps. Mike Rogers and Matt Gaetz

WASHINGTON — The lawmakers who wrote this year’s final defense authorization bill deleted or diluted all eight House-passed NDAA provisions pertaining to extremism in the U.S. military or American society.

Most of the provisions aimed at identifying and removing extremism in the U.S. military were stripped out of the annual defense policy bill.