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House passes defense bill 363-70; Senate up next
The House passed a new compromise defense policy bill and sent it to the Senate Tuesday, endorsing a $25 billion increase over President Joe Biden’s defense budget request for 2022
By Joe Gould
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Military justice changes must go beyond sex cases, says senator
Top Pentagon officials and key lawmakers are open to the sexual assault shift, but they say applying it more broadly requires far more study and debate.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
Former managers for privatized housing company plead guilty to fraud in doctoring maintenance records
Managers were part of a larger conspiracy doctoring maintenance records to make sure the housing company got millions in performance incentive fees, feds say.
By Karen Jowers
Signs point to shift in combating sexual assault in military
The Pentagon appears resigned to a new approach on how to combat military sexual assault.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
Incoming Foreign Relations chairman is foe of Trump’s massive Mideast arms sales
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, who clashed with the Trump administration over its arms sales in the Mideast, rejection of Cold War arms control treaties and its withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, is poised to become the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
By Joe Gould
Four friction points to watch in the FY21 defense budget
Congress will receive President Donald Trump’s FY21 budget proposal for the Pentagon and other federal agencies on Monday, but don’t expect it to pass as drafted.
By Joe Gould