Sen. Murphy tells Stratford company he aims to protect jobs here. The day before U.S.
Sen. Corker Objects To Shutting Out U.S. Textile Firms In Defense Bill - 12/02. In a letter to Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, (D-Mi.), and the ranking member Jim Inhofe, (R-Ok.), Senator Bob Corker, (R-Tn.), the ranking member on the Foreign Relations Committee, objected to attempts to include language in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 that would shut out U.S. textile firms from selling products to Department of Defense commissaries and exchange stores.
House OKs Pentagon policy bill. WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday — for the second time this year — approved a 2014 Pentagon policy bill, setting up a high-stakes showdown in a Senate that one veteran lawmaker called “poisonous.”
House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders worked over a Thanksgiving recess to cobble together a compromise $607 billion defense authorization bill that would approve $527 billion in base funding and $80 billion for America’s overseas conflicts. It includes a slew of provisions originally included in either — or both — of a previous House-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) or a SASC-passed version that was killed by the full Senate on Nov. 20. Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Calif., Sen. Blog: BILL SLANTZ: "REPEAL THE PATRIOT ACT, REAL ID, AND THE NDAA. GROUND THE DRONES. PROTECT AMERICANS' CIVIL LIBERTIES NOW!" Contact: Skyler Miller, Campaign Manager -- Committee to Elect Bill Slantz.
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Senate Committee completes NDAA FY 2014 markup - The Fort Campbell Courier: News. WASHINGTON – Senator Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, and Ranking Member Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., announced Friday that the committee has completed its markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014.
The committee voted 23-3 to report the bill, which authorizes funding for the Department of Defense and the national security programs of the Department of Energy. NDAA and martial law in America, Part 3. The question burning in the minds of many Americans today is this: Is martial law coming to America?
There are several people that say it is not, that name call and badmouth the people who believe it is coming. I have found credible information that suggests it is quite probable that martial law will be invoked, but no information gives a date as to when it will happen. There is also a lot of speculation as to why it will occur. March 16, 2012, President Barack Obama [Unlink] signed an executive order titled "National Defense Resources Preparedness.
" It is Executive Order 13603. I took this excerpt directly from the Nation Defense Resources Preparedness order. Martial Law This executive order gives Obama the ability to declare martial law even in times of peace. Obama visit to DreamWorks Animation spotlights studio run by top Hollywood donor. Katzenberg ranks among the president’s most valuable political donors and fundraisers, jumping in early to raise money for his first White House bid and pulling in more than $500,000 in donations in both 2008 and 2012.
Katzenberg also provided the crucial seed money for the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action in 2011, eventually pumping $3 million into the group. The decision by the White House to put the presidential spotlight on his company underscores how well many top campaign donors have fared in Obama’s administration, despite the president’s early pledge to temper the influence of wealthy interests on the political system. Since 2008, Obama has appointed at least three dozen big check writers and fundraisers to coveted ambassadorships in spots such as the United Kingdom, France and Italy. White House officials said Katzenberg’s financial support has nothing to do with the visit to his studio, where Obama will make his only public appearance during two days in Los Angeles. NASA to Launch World's Largest Solar Sail Next Year. A demonstration intended to show the viability of "propellant-free" space transport in the near future is planned for 2014, with the launch of the world's largest solar sail.
NASA's Sunjammer will deploy a huge, ultra-thin solar sail once in space, and be able to use the pressure of sunlight on that sail to propel the device. Using the energy of the sun to propel a sail has already been successfully used on a smaller scale, as an earlier forerunner to the Sunjammer, the Nanosail-D , demonstrated in 2011. The Nanosail-D deployed a 100 square foot sail and orbited on a 240 day mission around the Earth.
But this newest iteration of the solar sail is huge in comparison. The Sunjammer is seven times the size of any previous solar sail design, and features a sail measuring over 120 feet on each side. The Sunjammer project is being developed by NASA and L'Garde Inc ., with an expected launch as a secondary payload on a Falcon 9 rocket in 2014. NDAA raises cyber defense profile. Defense Department Defense bill emphasizes cyber operations.
YOUR VIEW: Senate votes to approve NDAA for 2013. Obama signs Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), China firmly opposes. January 4, 2013 (TSR) – U.S. President Barack Obama has signed the National Defense Authorization Act of the 2013 fiscal year, the White House said on Thursday. According to the White House, Obama signed the bill while vacationing in Hawaii. Defense Authorization Act boosts pay, requires special training. C.
Todd Lopez Army News Service President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2013 into law, Jan. 2. Among other things, the act authorizes a 1.7-percent increase in Soldier pay, effective Jan. 1, as well as funds for Army procurement, operations, maintenance, and research and development for both the generating force as well as for the operational force engaged in overseas contingency operations. The act means that Congress has approved a plan for how the Army can spend money for fiscal year 2013, which actually began Oct. 1, 2012, and runs through Sept. 30, 2013.
Number of high risk suppliers surges - electronicsfeed.com. Obama Rep. Senator Chuck Schumer Says Questioning NDAA is "Biased" America is Dying. Can You Survive the Coming U.S. Police Surveillance State? Once U.S. Government completes building its multi-billion dollar Surveillance State that will spy on Americans’ every move, it is problematic some in government and the private security complex that (profit) selling the government domestic spying systems, will want to insure the Surveillance Police State is made permanent. Amicus Brief Filed in Hedges by Senators McCain, Graham, and Ayotte. Military Biofuels Debate Continues: NDAA Could Kill Job, Economic Growth, Report Says.
Defense industry cautiously upbeat on sequester - Tim Mak. So far, this fall’s lame-duck congressional session has been stuffed with sensationalism, but defense insiders are confident that a defense authorization bill and sequestration won’t fall by the wayside. November’s return of Congress was supposed to bring focus on the National Defense Authorization Act and the avoidance of sequestration, but those priorities were interrupted by calls for a select committee to investigate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and the flurry of attention to CIA Director David Petraeus’s resignation over his extramarital affair. Continue Reading “It’s suddenly crowded with stuff that we had no idea was coming. … It took people a little off their game, it looks like,” said Bill McQuillen, vice president of public affairs for the consulting group JDA Frontline.
Defense bill done: biofuels survive.