U.S. House Committee on Armed Services

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Army sergeant who worked as a sexual assault prevention coordinator at Fort Hood, Texas, has been accused of sex crimes, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the second man in the military's anti-sexual assault effort to be...

WASHINGTON — Making her first trip to a war zone since she was gravely injured in 2004, Rep. Tammy Duckworth visited Afghanistan last weekend with five other congresswomen. Duckworth, who lost her legs when her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down...

— Making her first trip to a war zone since she was gravely injured in 2004, U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth visited Afghanistan last weekend with five other congresswomen. Duckworth, who lost her legs when her Black Hawk helicopter was struck by a...

SOUTH BEND -- U.S. Reps. Jackie Walorski, R-Jimtown, and Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., this week introduced bipartisan legislation providing protections for survivors of military sexual violence, according to a news releases. According to the Department of...

Rep. Juan Vargas, D-Chula Vista, submitted testimony to the House Committee on Armed Services regarding the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014. Rep. Vargas addressed numerous issues, all of which he said are top priorities for his...

WASHINGTON — Confronted with a mass hunger strike and the use of forced feedings to keep inmates from starving, President Obama broke a long silence on the military prison for suspected foreign terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, declaring it "not...

Loretta Sanchez’s visit to Imperial County over the last two days brought a high-ranking, high-profile congresswoman face to face with a number of local concerns, from border and checkpoint wait times, to the issues plaguing the Salton Sea,...

Local comments on the draft environmental impact statement on homebasing the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter squadron were shared with U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez, second highest-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, as she attended...

Workers at Letterkenny Army Depot will see a 22-day work furlough that was expected to begin this week as part of the federal budget sequester reduced by eight days, according to a depot spokeswoman. The United States Department of Defense has reduced...

VIRGINIA BEACH — U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Virginia Beach, introduced legislation Wednesdas to repeal cuts to the amount of U.S. food aid required to be carried on U.S. flagged vessels. Along with U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., Rigell is...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Parked around the airstrip at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland are more than a dozen massive C-5A Galaxy transport planes. There is no money to fly them, repair them or put pilots in the cockpits, but Congress rejected the Air...

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. intelligence agency has concluded that North Korea has the capability to develop nuclear warheads small enough to fit on a ballistic missile, a congressman disclosed Thursday. Although U.S. experts believe that North Korea cannot...