Just as it did with the Senate’s defense authorization bill, the White House released a statement warning the House Appropriations Committee against placing any money for the F-22 fighter jet — which the Senate killed — into its companion legislation:
The Administration strongly objects to $369 million in
A program that the Obama administration calls crucial to Pakistan’s fight against the Taliban is being criticized at the State Department and on Capitol Hill for overly militarizing the problem.
The dispute represents an early rift with some progressive members of Congress over discrepancies between the administration’s broad foreign policy More…
Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) wrote to CIA Director Leon Panetta yesterday to claim an inaccuracy in the CIA’s list of briefings held for members of Congress on the so-called “enhanced interrogation” program. Specifically, Obey said that a House Appropriations Committee aide named Paul Juola never attended a Sept. 19, More…
It’s not just former Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) who’ve alleged that the CIA’s list of briefings for congress on the “enhanced interrogations” regime is incorrect. Yesterday Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), chairman of the House appropriations committee, sent CIA Director Leon Panetta this just-released letter More…
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