WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representative Buck McKeon, who heads the House Armed Services Committee, on Monday blasted the Pentagon's proposed defense budget for fiscal 2013, saying it "irresponsibly ignores" additional mandatory cuts that are due to take effect in January 2013.
WASHINGTON — China seeks to match US military might, hacks US government computers "daily," and is "drunk with economic power," a key US lawmaker warned Monday as he warned against new cuts at the Pentagon.
WASHINGTON — Iraq's leaders should ask "sooner rather than later" for a sizeable US troop presence there into 2012, a key US lawmaker said Wednesday, warning that too small a number would imperil fragile gains.
WASHINGTON — Fresh from their historic elections romp, US Republicans served notice Wednesday that they would target President Barack Obama's July 2011 deadline to start withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan.
