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This week, Defending Defense, a joint initiative of the American Enterprise Institute, Foreign Policy Initiative, and the Heritage Foundation, urged Congress to act immediately to stop sequestration. The $1 trillion in cuts resulting from sequestrations would pose an unacceptable risk to national security and to our industrial base.
Defending Defense Joint Statement: Sequestration Must Be Stopped
By Reps. Buck McKeon and Paul Ryan
Last year, as the federal government approached a limit on how much it could legally borrow, the Obama administration asked Congress to rubber-stamp an increase in the government's borrowing authority without any spending cuts to match.
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This week, the House will fulfill our most important constitutional duty by debating the FY 13 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In accordance with the framer’s intent, this act is the primary check that Congress can apply to the Executive Branch on defense and national security policy.
One signatory of a letter to House Armed Services Committee Chairman, Rep. Buck McKeon, Charles "Cully" Stimson appeared on FOX News today to express his concerns about the pending Smith-Amash amendment on extending constitutional protections to foreign terrorist detainees.
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Wall Street Journal Editorial Board:
A week ago the world learned of another foiled airplane bombing attack by the Yemeni offshoot of al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden's successors are desperate to strike the U.S. again, which isn't news to most Americans but seems to elude some Members of Congress.
BY: Adam Kredo
Washington Free Beacon
May 16, 2012 2:12 pm
Former government attorneys and defense experts fear that foreign terrorists could capitalize on a new House proposal that would afford them full protection under the U.S. legal system, potentially spurring a domestic influx of would-be terrorists who may seek to exploit the legal loophole.
In a May 9th letter to Chairman McKeon, former high-ranking officials under Presidents Reagan and Bush, including Attorneys General Ed Meese and Mike Mukasey, wrote in strong support of detainee language in the FY13 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and expressed opposition to language offered by Reps. Adam Smith (D-WA) and Justin Amash (R-MI).
WASHINGTON- Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon today sent a letter to the Pentagon, responding to statements made by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta at a press briefing yesterday. Secretary Panetta was criticizing elements of the FY 13 National Defense Authorization Act, a bi-partisan measure that passed the House Armed Services Committee by a vote of 56-5.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon took to the House Floor today, fighting to resolve the budget crisis that faces America’s military. Because the "Super Committee" was unable to reach an agreement men and women in uniform face a $500 billion cut next year. Only immediate action by Congress and the President can avert that cut.