by Dan Day | Jun 23, 2014 | Monitor
On September 30, 2014, the charter for the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) is set to expire and right now politics are playing with a vital tool of American economic and national security – the future of Ex-Im hangs in the balance. Established...
by Kendall Strong | Jun 20, 2014 | Monitor
Energy diversity is a national security imperative Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) / The Hill When Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps, first visited my office last year, I was one of the newest members of the House Armed Services Committee. I was eager to...
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 Chelsea Sanchez | Jun 18, 2013 | Monitor
The House of Representatives Passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act last Friday, June 14. The Senate Armed Services Committee passed through their version of the defense bill this week, focusing on investment rather than construction. While the...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 7, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis The April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was made to order television drama operating in nearly Aristotelian time from the beginning through the bizarre car chase, shoot out and round-up of the one suspect still alive. The script was almost all...
