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Army chief nominee would boost recruiting, but Tuberville blockade leaves his confirmation uncertain

The Army officer tapped to be the service’s next chief of staff is outlining his plan to fix what he described as the service’s top challenge — rebuilding recruiting — as it becomes clear the Army will again fall short of its enlistment goal

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DOD’s top levels feel effects of Tuberville blanket holds - Roll Call

The Marines do not have a Senate-confirmed commandant for the first time in more than a century because of Tuberville's nomination blockade.

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Groups call on Senate to dedicate funds for committee interns

WASHINGTON -- Pay Our Interns, an advocacy group, and five other organizations are calling on Senate appropriators to set aside at least $7 million in the coming budget year to compensate committee interns.

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Groups call on Senate to dedicate funds for committee interns - Roll Call

Pay Our Interns and other groups are calling on the Senate to set aside $7 million in the coming budget year to compensate committee interns.

Roll Call

Congress returns from recess with a big to-do list

Addressing the fallout of a leak of classified intelligence documents and drafting legislation to avoid a default on the nation's credit limit are just a few items on Congress' to-do list.

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US arrests 21-year-old National Guardsman in classified documents leak

The FBI arrested a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman in connection with the leak of highly classified documents including maps, intelligence updates and the assessment of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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Lawmakers float ways to recapture deposit insurance discipline - Roll Call

The size of deposits covered by federal bank rescues has lawmakers talking about the discipline of a cap on deposit insurance.

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Sub builder Electric Boat is in the midst of a 'once in generation expansion.' Can that expand to serve an international goal?

GROTON, Connecticut – Electric Boat hired 3,700 shipbuilders last year. It wants to hire more than 5,000 this year and just as many every year for decades into the future.

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Hawley’s departure from Armed Services draws speculation

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…

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Chinese balloon was part of years-long spying program, US says

The high-altitude Chinese balloon that crossed over the U.S. last week is just part of a years-long surveillance program with Beijing deploying such craft around the globe, the US said, as officials sought to draw new attention to what they say is an increasingly aggressive Chinese spying campaign.

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Hawley’s departure from Armed Services draws speculation - Roll Call

Was it retribution or magnanimity? Accounts differ on Missouri Republican Josh Hawley's departure from the desirable Armed Services panel.

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US Congress suggests sending B-21 stealth bombers to Australia under AUKUS partnership

America's next-generation B-21 bomber could be sent to Australia to "accelerate" national security under a Congressional proposal put to the US Defence Secretary.

ABC News

Soaring egg prices prompt demands for price-gouging probe

With egg prices more than doubling in the past year, calls are coming for an investigation into possible price gouging

The Independent UK

US politicians express strong support for AUKUS submarine deal in letter to President Joe Biden

A week after it was revealed two powerful United States Senators warned President Joe Biden last year that selling submarines to Australia to could stretch the US industrial base to "breaking point", a bipartisan group of US politicians now publicly throw their weight behind the AUKUS pact.

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Senator: Ending US aid to Ukraine would be historic mistake

Maine’s independent senator says the U.S. risks enabling the spread of extremism in Europe if it stopped providing support to Ukraine in its war with Russia

AAP

Dutton stands by subs call amid criticism

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton maintains America should sell Australia Virginia-class submarines, despite calls that it might kill the US submarine industry.

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US President Joe Biden warned AUKUS nuclear submarine deal could come at cost to American fleet

Two powerful US politicians warn President Joe Biden the proposal to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines risks harming America's industrial base to "breaking point".

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Senate sends fiscal 2023 defense authorization bill to Biden’s desk

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to pass the final defense authorization bill for fiscal 2023, clearing the sweeping measure for President Joe Biden’s signature.

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Senate passes defense bill rescinding COVID vaccine mandate

A bill to rescind the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military and provide nearly $858 billion for national defense has passed the Senate and now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law

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Senate sends fiscal 2023 NDAA to Biden's desk - Roll Call

The Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass the final defense authorization bill for fiscal 2023, clearing the measure for Biden's signature.

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Editorial: Gillibrand’s long march: Persistence has paid off with military justice fairness

Kirsten Gillibrand would not give up. The New York senator labored for a decade to reform how the military justice system works (and doesn’t work). And now she has prevailed. The thousands of annual cases of sexual assault and rape in the ranks will be handled like crimes among civilians,…

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Final defense authorization bill removes most House provisions on hate groups

WASHINGTON — The lawmakers who wrote this year’s final defense authorization bill deleted or diluted all eight House-passed NDAA provisions pertaining to extremism in the U.S. military or American society.

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Final NDAA removes most House provisions on hate groups - Roll Call

Most of the provisions aimed at identifying and removing extremism in the U.S. military were stripped out of the annual defense policy bill.

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Gillibrand calls new NDAA ‘huge milestone’ in military justice

WASHINGTON — The newly released defense authorization bill for fiscal 2023 all but completes a decade-long campaign to overhaul the tradition-bound military justice system, advocates of the change say.

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Gillibrand calls new NDAA 'huge milestone' in military justice - Roll Call

The defense authorization measure would move authority over prosecutions for major crimes from commanders to professional prosecutors.

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