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Our View: Sanchez could be helpful to squadron effort
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,...Tags: Washington, DC, Armed Forces, Loretta Sanchez
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Imperial County supervisors share joint strike fighter concerns with high-ranking congresswoman
Staff WriterLocal 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...Tags: Juan Vargas, Loretta Sanchez, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Defense
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Furlough days reduced for Letterkenny workers
roxann.miller@herald-mail.comWorkers 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...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. Congress, Budget Control Act of 2011, Employees, Chuck Hagel
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Rigell introduces legislation to repeal Maritime food-aid cuts
VIRGINIA BEACH — U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Virginia Beach, introduced legislation Wednesdas to repeal cuts to the amount of U.S. food aid required to be carried on U.S. flagged vessels. Along with U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., Rigell is...Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Elijah E. Cummings, Scott Rigell
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AP IMPACT: Military's efforts to cut programs, save billions, are thwarted by Congress
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Parked around the airstrip at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland are more than a dozen massive C-5A Galaxy transport planes. There is no money to fly them, repair them or put pilots in the cockpits, but Congress rejected the Air...Tags: Sports, Washington, DC, Politics, Layoffs and Downsizing, Lobbying
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Snippets from today's House Armed Services Committee hearing ...
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...Tags: Shipbuilding, Armed Forces, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Manufacturing and Engineering, Harry S. Truman
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North Korea may have nuclear warhead capability, U.S. agency says
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...Tags: Japan, Nuclear Weapons, Espionage and Intelligence, Politics, Central Intelligence Agency
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U.S. agency sees boost in North Korea nuclear ability
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...
Tags: Nuclear Weapons, Japan, Politics, Pyongyang (North Korea), Central Intelligence Agency
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Letters: Worked up over defense claims
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...Tags: Politics, Wars and Interventions, Small Businesses, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Elections
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'Buck' McKeon's readers see another side to the 'sequester'
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...
Tags: Politics, Wars and Interventions, Elections, U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Obama's dangerous defense experiment
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...
Tags: Martin Dempsey, Armed Forces, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense, John Boehner
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Little action to stop defense cuts, despite warnings
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...Tags: U.S. Air Force, Lockheed Martin Corp., Politics, Armed Forces, Georgetown
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