Today, the Dallas Morning News featured a column by Ranking Member Thornberry in which he once again raised the alarm about the dangers of a full-year Continuing Resolution. You can read excerpts below:Every day under a CR damages our military and undermines the recent fragile progress of repairing and rebuilding it. If Congress and the White House do not change course soon, I am deeply… Read more »
A recent CRS report found that "DOD has started the fiscal year under a CR for 13 of the past 18 years and every year since FY2010 excluding FY2019. The amount of time DOD has operated under CR authorities during the fiscal year has tended to increase in the past 10 years and equates to a total of more than 39 months since 2010." That means that cumulatively, DOD has spent more than three… Read more »
At the markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Democrats will have an opportunity to support an amendment offered by Ranking Member Mac Thornberry (R-TX) that would follow through with the recommendations of two Secretaries of Defense, senior military leadership, and the bipartisan National Defense Strategy Commission to provide 3-5% real growth in the defense budget.… Read more »
Last week, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX) Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee released his fifth proposal aimed at reforming the Department of Defense. Read more on Thornberry's proposals here. Since 2015, The House Armed Services Committee has led Congress in enacting significant defense reforms with strong bipartisan support. Among these reforms are over sixty of Rep.… Read more »
This week, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, joined FOX's America's Newsroom to discuss the developing situation in the Middle East, North Korean launches, and Venezuela. Addressing all these threats, Thornberry reiterated that a strong military presence in the Middle East, and on the Korean Peninsula, are key to America's National… Read more »
Last year Military Times published a landmark investigation of military aviation demonstrating that manned aviation accidents "spiked almost 40 percent over the past five years, killing 133 service members since 2013." This week, Military Times has updated their figures for 2018; finding that while total aviation accidents fell for the first time since 2013's budget cuts, military… Read more »
Nuclear Modernization Is Affordable And Critical "It's not an enormous part of our budget, but it is a critical part of our budget."Ash Carter, President Obama's Secretary of Defense, March 2016"[I]t is Essential to Recapitalize the Nuclear Triad" "I stated when I was Secretary of Defense and continue to maintain that it is essential to recapitalize the nuclear Triad, because it is the… Read more »
On Wednesday, the House Armed Services Committee will convene a hearing on Nuclear Deterrence Policy. Topics will range from the cost of maintaining and upgrading our nuclear arsenal, withdrawal from the INF Treaty, and a proposed No First Use Policy. Each of these controversial issues has been surrounded by myths and half-truths. Before the hearing begins, we should get to The Ground… Read more »
Ahead of tomorrow's hearing on counterterrorism operations, it is important to review the rigorous, bipartisan oversight the House Armed Services Committee applies to these sensitive military operations. Concurrent with the Obama Administration's increased reliance on Counterterrorism Operations (CT) to combat al Qaeda and its affiliates, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX) then Chairman of… Read more »
Today, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, joined Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith on FOX's America's Newsroom to discuss the developing situation in the Middle East and the debate over border security. On border security, Thornberry said, "I'm against using Department of Defense dollars for any other purpose. I'm for a wall and I'm for supporting… Read more »
