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Rejects Lower Pay Raise, TriCare Fee Hikes: A key House panel is rejecting the idea that budget cuts must mean pain for service members, retirees and their families. On Wednesday, the House Armed Services subcommittee on personnel is scheduled to take up draft legislation that rejects the 1 percent capped pay raise proposed by the Obama administration and rejects, again, efforts to increase Tricare fees for military retirees and their families. The draft bill prepared by Rep.
WASHINGTON- Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, today made the following statement in reaction to early accounts of the President's counter-terrorism address scheduled for this afternoon. |
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The Military Personnel Subcommittee Mark of the FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act includes a number of meaningful, bipartisan reforms to the way sexual assault cases are reported, investigated and punished in the military. |
Rep. Randy Forbes Lauds Successful Launch of Navy's Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) |
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WASHINGTON— In a letter delivered today to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, requested additional information to continue HASC oversight of the attack on U.S. Facilities and personnel in Benghazi, Libya. In the letter, Chairman McKeon asked the Pentagon to make personnel and information available as early as next week in briefings to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, led by Rep.
WASHINGTON- House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA) and Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA), took an important step today to begin the legislative process for crafting the FY 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, by introducing HR 1960, the "by request" version of the bill.
WASHINGTON - House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon made the following statement regarding allegations of criminal behavior against a U.S. Army Sergeant First Class who was a sexual assault prevention and response coordinator at Fort Hood:
Lawmaker wants military to promptly alert Congress about drone strikes
Craig Whitlock
The Washington Post
May 8, 2013
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WASHINGTON- Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee today made the following comments about continued disturbing revelations regarding sexual assault within the military: