by Philip Rossetti | Apr 14, 2015 | Monitor
On March 26th, the Senate voted on an amendment proposed by Senator Bennet to the budget, a non-binding resolution that sets spending priorities. It passed with 53 votes, including 6 Republicans (Senators Ayotte, Kirk, Collins, Graham, Murkowski, and Portman), and key...
by Andrew Holland | Mar 18, 2015 | Monitor
On Monday, March 16, the House Budget Committee released a draft of its FY2016 Budget Resolution. As has become usual when budget legislation is announced, the sponsor, Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price also released a narrative document outlining the contents of...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 13, 2014 | Monitor
Sound the alarm. Call the troops to the battlefield of the annual budget wars currently underway in Washington. Here’s just one example: a poignant but less than fully historically accurate plea by a journalist on the program’s behalf. This year the venerable...
by BGen Stephen A. Cheney USMC (Ret.) | Jul 9, 2013 | Monitor
While I don’t always agree with Frank Gaffney, his op-ed in The Washington Times this morning was almost spot on. The world IS changing, and it’s changing FAST. We need to enhance our national security by moving away from old Cold War thinking – to understand, adapt,...
by Adin Dobkin | Jul 1, 2013 | Monitor
Depending on whom you ask, the United States currently maintains a force of nearly 300,000 troops stationed overseas. Although a majority of these individuals are fighting in the War on Terror, the US also actively maintains fully staffed bases in relatively stable...
