U.S. House Committee on Armed Services

WASHINGTON — Confronted with a mass hunger strike and the use of forced feedings to keep inmates from starving, President Obama broke a long silence on the military prison for suspected foreign terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, declaring it "not...

Loretta Sanchez’s visit to Imperial County over the last two days brought a high-ranking, high-profile congresswoman face to face with a number of local concerns, from border and checkpoint wait times, to the issues plaguing the Salton Sea,...

Local comments on the draft environmental impact statement on homebasing the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter squadron were shared with U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez, second highest-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, as she attended...

Workers at Letterkenny Army Depot will see a 22-day work furlough that was expected to begin this week as part of the federal budget sequester reduced by eight days, according to a depot spokeswoman. The United States Department of Defense has reduced...

The top leaders of the Navy and Marine Corps apppeared before the House Armed Services Committee Tuesday to discuss their new budget request. Here are some tidbits taken from their prepared testimony in no particular order of importance: From Navy...

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. intelligence agency has concluded that North Korea has the capability to develop nuclear warheads small enough to fit on a ballistic missile, a congressman disclosed Thursday. Although U.S. experts believe that North Korea cannot...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. intelligence agency has concluded that North Korea has the capability to develop nuclear warheads small enough to fit on a ballistic missile, a congressman disclosed Thursday. Although U.S. experts believe North Korea cannot...

Re “Obama's dangerous experiment,” Opinion, Feb. 28 Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-Santa Clarita), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, fails to mention that he himself voted for the “sequester” in...

On the eve of the sequester cuts this week, Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon  scolded President Obama in a Times Op-Ed article. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee wrote: “The president is forcing America to indulge him in...

Mindful of the repeated rounds of cuts the military has already endured, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, recently delivered a grim warning: "If you want [the military] to be doing what it's doing today, then we can't give you another...

Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result. Instead, partisan divisions have hardened over how to avoid the...

Members of Congress left Washington on Friday for their annual Presidents Day state (or district) work period, planning to resume toward the end of the month. The break means Congress can't do anything about the looming sequester -- roughly $85 billion in...