The Latest Breaking News from Armed Services Committee

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, told Taiwan President Lai Ching-te on Friday that the island has an absolute right to remain free and preserve self-determination.

Roger Wicker, head of powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, says in Taipei that trip is focused on security ties.

“They’re not from outer space,” Sen. Thom Tillis says after all-senators classified briefing about the unidentified objects.

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…

These Republicans will use their gavels to advance a conservative agenda and ramp up probes of the Biden administration.

Democrats were in the minority the entire time O’Rourke was in Congress. He says that experience working across the aisle prepares him to be governor of a red state.

WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee’s new defense authorization bill would expand a program enacted last year to help low-income military families make ends meet and feed themselves — but advocates say legislative fixes to date have fallen short of what’s needed.

The House Armed Services Committee plans a 4.6 pay raise for servicemembers in 2023 and a reduction in Army troops of 12,000.

The Senate Armed Services Committee held a confirmation hearing for Christopher Cavoli, Biden's pick to be the U.S. general at NATO.