U.S. House Committee on Armed Services

Sexual assaults in military: 'Little monsters' now in charge

2013-05-17 09:23:00

Paula Coughlin was grocery shopping in Jacksonville, Fla., when I caught up with her on the phone this week. If anyone has an interesting perspective on the U.S. military’s absurd inability to deal with sexual assault, it’s Coughlin. She is...

Obama renews call to close Guantanamo prison

2013-04-30 21:43:00

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...

North Korea may have nuclear warhead capability, U.S. agency says

2013-04-12 08:32:00

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...

U.S. agency sees boost in North Korea nuclear ability

2013-04-11 18:21:00

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...

Letters: Worked up over defense claims

2013-03-03 00:00:00

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...

'Buck' McKeon's readers see another side to the 'sequester'

2013-03-01 18:38:00

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...

Obama's dangerous defense experiment

2013-02-28 00:00:00

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...

The Democrats' sequester proposals: You can't be serious

2013-02-15 14:08:00

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...

General admits failure in Lackland sex scandal; 32 alleged culprits

2013-01-23 10:23:00

HOUSTON -- A top Air Force general testifying at a congressional hearing Wednesday about the growing sexual scandal at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas said officials "clearly failed" to establish order and discipline among instructors at the...

Pentagon ends ban on women in combat

2013-01-23 13:50:00

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is ending the ban on women serving in combat in the U.S. military, potentially opening up more than 200,000 positions on the front lines and possibly also jobs with elite commando units. Pentagon...

Ben Affleck on running for Senate: He didn't say 'no'

2012-12-20 16:28:00

He didn't say "no." Ben Affleck didn't say much, but he didn't say "no" when pressed by Bob Schieffer to chat about the possibility that he might run for a Senate seat in Massachusetts should Sen. John Kerry be tapped as secretary of State. "I’m...

Ben Affleck testifies in Congress about war-torn Congo

2012-12-19 12:02:00

He’s best known as an actor and a filmmaker, but Ben Affleck has a special interest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and on Wednesday the “Argo” director testified before the House Armed Services Committee about what Affleck termed...

Ben Affleck testifying Wednesday before the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

2012-12-19 00:00:00

Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-Santa Clarita), right, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, shakes hands with Fred Stewart after speaking to employees at the Northrop plant in Palmdale on Monday.

2012-04-02 00:00:00

Representative Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, addresses the crowd at the USS California Commissioning in Norfolk on Saturday, October 29.

2011-10-29 12:30:00