An
authorization bill is a type of law that approves and sets the limit for spending on a specific government program or activity. It gives permission or "authorizes" the government to spend a certain amount of money on a particular purpose.
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We have a number of vehicles where people may want to speak out on this, and the first one will be the
defense authorization bill.
The House Science, Space and Technology (SS&T) Committee will mark up a new
NASA authorization bill for FY2016 and FY2017.
Said Alexander Nicholson, founder and Executive Director of Servicemembers United: «We are both pleased and relieved that Senator Reid has decided to schedule the defense
authorization bill for floor time next week.
The massive defense
authorization bill approved by the House Armed Services panel early Thursday morning is a consequential measure — but not for the reasons most people think.
The American Civil Liberties Union strongly urges you vote «YES» on the Kennedy - Smith hate crimes prevention amendment to the Defense
Department authorization bill, when the amendment likely comes to the Senate floor next week.
Ensign voted against the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the defense
authorization bill in September.
Additionally, she said Ensign intends to examine «all the merits» of the defense
authorization bill before committing to a vote one way or another and is hoping for a «fully open amendment process.»
Do you think the House will take up the issue in an amendment to the defense
authorization bill when it comes to the floor, and if so, will that vote be successful?
The Senate on Tuesday rejected a bid to strip from the fiscal 2012 defense
authorization bill provisions designed to codify the handling of detainees, putting the bill at risk of a presidential veto.
Gillibrand revealed her plans to amend the defense
authorization bill after she questioned each of the military service chiefs in committee on whether openly transgender service — a policy allowed in the military starting in the Obama administration — has resulted in any problems with discipline or unit cohesion.
Asked by the Washington Blade on Tuesday at the 2018 Ideas Conference hosted by the Center for American Progress if she'd seek to amend the fiscal year 2019 defense
authorization bill against the ban, Gillibrand replied, «Yes, yes, yes.»
The Advocate has learned that concurrent meetings took place Monday morning at the White House and on Capitol Hill that could help clear the way for «don't ask, don't tell» repeal to be attached to the Department of Defense
authorization bill later this week.
The House Armed Services Committee will debate dozens of amendments to the fiscal 2019 defense
authorization bill during its marathon markup on Wednesday, when lawmakers could introduce a wide variety of proposals, such as authorizing the Pentagon to develop new nuclear weapons and allowing transgender troops to serve in the military.
Plans to attach the repeal of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» to a Defense
Dept authorization bill are moving forward, the Huffington Post reports:
Rep. Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardPavlich: Media gives Hamas exactly what they want Overnight Defense: House panel passes 6B defense bill What's in the bill and what didn't make the cut Pentagon details «failures» in Niger operation Trump, Kim meeting set Policy issues take center stage as House panel passes 6B defense
authorization bill MORE (D - Hawaii): Gabbard, 36, hasn't been afraid to buck her party.
First, the Senate must vote in September, over the objections of Senator John McCain, to pass the defense
authorization bill which includes repeal language.
«The move would nullify a Republican - backed provision, slipped into a huge
military authorization bill, that set a termination date for the agency, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
Two pieces of legislation from a Hudson Valley congressman have become law after President Trump signed the National Defense
Authorization Bill Tuesday.
It would be shameful for lawmakers to vote to hold up an important and expansive piece of legislation like the defense
authorization bill simply because of their opposition to one or two provisions within it.»
The program is included in the Senate's defense
authorization bill even though Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he opposes building any more of the planes.
Washington (CNN)- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he will urge President Barack Obama to veto a coming $ 726 billion defense
authorization bill if it contains funding for unwanted projects Gates has been trying to cut for years.
Catching the Democratic leadership by surprise, members voted 292 to 126 to block passage of a 5 -
year authorization bill that would have provided healthy increases in the research and education budgets of the National Science Foundation and research programs at the Department of Energy and the Department of Commerce.
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee cleared its version of the 2013 NASA
Authorization bill today on a party - line vote.
Rep. Donna Edwards (D - MD), the ranking member of the Space Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology (SS&T), stressed that once this bill is enacted, work will begin on a
multi-year authorization bill.
That means that NSF's authorization is still expired (since 2013) and the House Science, Space and Technology Committee (under the leadership of Chairman Lamar Smith (R - TX)-RRB- may very well introduce another
NSF authorization bill in the new Congress.
The House already passed a bill for 2015, so that would effectively make a three - year authorization, similar to NASA's
previous authorization bill that covered FY2011 - FY2013.
Our readers, over 1.2 million last year, were helpful in achieving passage of the Military Dog Retirement Act in the National Defense
Authorization Bill giving first adoption priority to civilian Law Enforcement Agencies, then to prior military handlers, and finally to the general public.
The US needs to go ahead with new icebreakers to police the Bering Strait region and the coastline of Alaska, as well as to help enforce environnmental laws, respond to emergencies, etc. (Write your Congressman; the Coast
Guard Authorization bill is a good place to start.)
NAR has been working as a member of the Transportation for America coalition to shape the
next authorization bill to ensure that (1) federal transportation money is spent on projects that serve all users, and (2) policy changes are implemented to increase local discretion and improve the prospects of alternative modes.
But the Pentagon's overall basic research accounts would still shrink by about 3 %, or $ 60 million, to $ 2.1 billion in 2015 under a defense
authorization bill approved Thursday on a 300 to 119 vote.
Smith writes that Thursday's «rancorous markup of H.R. 2039, the NASA Authorization Act for 2016 and 2017, was in sharp contrast to recent committee and subcommittee hearings on space topics as well as action on two prior
NASA authorization bills for 2014 and 2015.»
Also, he plans to review all of the merits of the Defense
Authorization bill before voting one way or another; hopefully it will be a fully open amendment process.»
The fiscal 2018 defense
authorization bill includes a provision requiring each branch of the military to develop a list of the bases and installations that are most vulnerable to the effects of global warming and report on their efforts to mitigate those effects.
Stefanik, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, succeeded last year in securing $ 30 million in a defense
authorization bill for the construction planning and design work needed for an East Coast site.
The current House version of the fiscal 2016
defense authorization bill calls for the Pentagon to conduct advanced technology war games, including those involving hypersonic strike systems.
An opportunity for Gillibrand to amend the defense
authorization bill will come next week when the Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a closed - door session to markup the defense authorization bill.
In public statements on the «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» issue, the White House has consistently refrained from saying Obama supports attaching repeal as part of the defense
authorization bill.
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