by Angela Zhang | Oct 10, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The nature of United States diplomacy in the Korean Peninsula — and its spillover impact on American foreign policy in Ukraine, China and Israel — needs to change, experts told Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee members last Wednesday. “Where we...
by Julian Andreone | Oct 4, 2023 | Business, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee met Wednesday to evaluate the potential reauthorization of the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development (BUILD) Act. The BUILD Act, introduced in 2018 by Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and co-authored by...
by Patrick Svitek | Feb 29, 2012 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday told lawmakers he is willing to go only so far in trimming the Pentagon budget to avoid putting the nation at serious risk. Testifying before the House Budget Committee, Panetta reiterated what he said to the...
by Mattias Gugel | Feb 28, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats on the House Budget Committee Tuesday agreed on one thing during a two-hour hearing: Health care for the elderly and government-funded retirement benefits are on an unsustainable path. But they couldn’t seem to agree on how to...
by Mattias Gugel | Feb 1, 2012 | Business
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats sparred Wednesday over a way to cure the economy at a House Budget Committee hearing after the head of the Congressional Budget Office said the country is on an “unsustainable fiscal course.” Congressional Budget Office Director...
