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☆ What to know about a judicial privacy bill Congress is passing with a major defense package
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +11 min
But the legislation is also rankling court watchdogs who contend the bill could complicate efforts to scrutinize the judicial branch for ethics issues. The bill does not displace the ethical disclosure requirements judges already face, the congressional aide noted to CNN. And it extends the threat-monitoring programs that are being offered to Article III judges to administrative judges as well. Now that the bill has been added to the National Defense Authorization Act, a massive defense package that Congress passes annually, Paul’s options for scuttling it are limited. “Because, if I am sued, someone is going to be bringing it to a federal judge.
☆ How one family’s struggle illustrates problems with the program meant to help Afghans who helped the US
  + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Jim Sciutto | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
CNN —For more than a year, I have been trying to help a family leave Afghanistan for safety and a new life abroad. However, SIV approval does not equal freedom for him and other Afghans with similar status – far from it. And last week, Congress removed language from the National Defense Authorization Act that would have extended the program for another year. To get to one of those countries, Afghans need passports – a relative luxury for many. The State Department tells CNN it had been managing to get only about 250 Afghans and their family members out of the country per week.
☆ Analysis: China's massive older chip tech buildup raises U.S. concern
  + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Jane Lanhee Lee Josh Horwitz Alexandra Alper | Jane Lanhee Lee | Josh Horwitz | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Starting with the Trump administration, the United States has been tightening the noose around China's high-tech ambitions. But why worry about older chip technology? “28 nanometer” refers to a chip technology commercially used since 2011. But it is a giant in older technology, including chips that regulate power flows in electronics. The importance of older chip technology hit the industry in the face in 2021 as a shortage of those chips prevented manufacturing of millions of cars and consumer electronics.
☆ Nuclear fusion breakthrough: Scientists generate more power than used to create reaction
  + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +9 min
Fusion is the way that the sun makes power, but recreating a useful fusion reaction here on earth has eluded scientists for decades. The National Ignition Facility target chamber at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is where scientists shoot lasers and watch and measure what happens when those lasers collide on a fuel source. Reaching ignition means the fusion experiment produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy that used to drive the reaction. "For the first time on Earth, scientists have confirmed a fusion energy experiment released more power than it takes to initiate, proving the physical basis for fusion energy. But it's proven extremely challenging to sustain a fusion reaction here on earth, and scientists have been trying for decades.
☆ Congress faces looming government shutdown deadline at end of the week
  + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Clare Foran Ted Barrett Mj Lee | Clare Foran | Ted Barrett | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
The NDAA is expected to get a vote in the Senate this week and be approved with bipartisan support. Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the ranking Republican member on the Senate Appropriations Committee, has told reporters the two sides are roughly $26 billion apart. Or it could extend the shutdown deadline into the next Congress, which will convene on January 3, and when Republicans take control of the House. That change in majority in the House would dramatically alter the dynamic for negotiations and likely make it far harder to reach a broader funding deal. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, outlined the argument for his party in his own floor remarks on Thursday.
☆ Congress has so much to do before Christmas
  + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
Second, the newly elected Congress will be sworn in on January 3. Everything resets in the new Congress, and lawmakers will have to start from scratch on anything they don’t finish up this month. One major looming question is whether Senate Republicans and Democrats can agree on a bill to fund the government for a full year or whether they have to punt to the next Congress. If the Electoral Count Act can pass, it could be slipped into that massive spending bill. But that’s a very open question, since that massive spending bill has not yet been put together.
☆ After years of arguing, Congress is finally letting the US Air Force send some A-10 Warthogs to the boneyard
  + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Thomas Novelly | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
The defense policy bill for 2023 will allow the US Air Force to retire 21 A-10 Warthogs. The Air Force has wanted to get rid A-10s for years, but Congress has blocked it from doing so. The Air Force has another 260 A-10s in service, but lawmakers may be more open to scrapping them. That Air National Guard wing previously flew earlier models of the F-16 until they were replaced — to much fanfare — with the Warthog back in 2010. Airmen reconfigure weapons on an A-10 during an exercise at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida in November 2019.
☆ Republicans seek to sabotage year-end spending bill
  + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
An omnibus spending bill that would avert the closure of the federal government would be one of the last acts of unified Democratic political control of Washington. Democrats, meanwhile, understand that the government spending bill likely represents their last chance to enact Biden’s ambitious domestic plans until the next presidential election. If lawmakers cannot agree on a deal, they will face the possibility of either passing a short-term spending bill to carry the debate into the new Congress or a longer-term continuing resolution that would extend current spending levels. But in a sign of the consuming nature of the spending showdown, Republicans emerged from the meeting complaining that the two secretaries spent time lobbying for an omnibus spending bill over a continuing resolution. He said that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had asked Blinken and Austin to explain why the new spending bill was so necessary.
☆ Republican Gallagher to lead new U.S. House China select committee
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Representative Mike Gallagher was named on Thursday to lead a select committee being created in the U.S. House of Representatives to focus on economic and security competition with China. Gallagher, a former Marine counterintelligence officer who has served on the House Armed Services Committee, has been a vocal critic of China's Communist government. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy had said he would create a select committee focused on China if he is elected speaker when Republicans take control of the House in January. "The Chinese Communist Party is the greatest geopolitical threat of our lifetime," McCarthy said in a statement as he announced Gallagher's selection. Getting tough on China, the United States' top geopolitical competitor, has become an area of bipartisan agreement, although Democrats and Republicans differ to some degree in their priorities.
☆ House passes defense bill scrapping military's Covid vaccine mandate
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
To win bipartisan support for the bill, Democrats agreed to Republican demands to scrap the requirement for service members to get a Covid-19 vaccination. The bill directs Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to rescind his August 2021 memorandum imposing the mandate. Rep. Adam Smith, Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, told colleagues that the decision to impose the vaccine mandate was the right call at the time. While the rescission of the Covid-19 vaccine mandate has generated much attention, it takes up one paragraph of what is a 4,408-page bill. This year’s bill authorizes money to support a $4.6% pay raise for military members and the Defense Department’s civilian workers.
☆ House Approves Bill to Boost Military Spending
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Katy Stech Ferek | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WASHINGTON—House lawmakers on Thursday passed a defense policy bill that authorizes U.S. military leaders to purchase new weapons and increase pay for troops, and lifts a requirement for members of the military to get vaccinated against Covid-19. In a 350-80 vote, lawmakers approved the annual National Defense Authorization Act to increase America’s total national security budget for fiscal year 2023 to $857.9 billion. That is a roughly 10% increase from last year’s $778 billion authorization bill. The measure was passed under a process requiring approval from two-thirds of voting House members.
☆ U.S. House overwhelmingly approves bill backing record military spending
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Patricia Zengerle | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
"This bill is Congress exercising its authority to authorize and do oversight," said Representative Adam Smith, the Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, in a speech urging support for the measure. This year's bill - the result of months of negotiations between Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate - needed a two-thirds majority in the House after disagreement from some House members over whether it should include an amendment on voting rights. The Senate is expected to pass the NDAA next week, sending it to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into law. Authorization bills create programs but Congress must pass appropriations bills to give the government legal authority to spend federal money. Congressional leaders have not yet agreed on an appropriations bill for next year.
☆ The US Navy spent 4 weeks blasting one of its aircraft carriers to figure out how to keep enemies from sinking them
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Harrison Kass | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
In May 2005, the US Navy sank the decommissioned aircraft carrier America in the Atlantic Ocean. The USS America (CV-66) was one of three Kitty Hawk-class carriers built in the 1960s. Building the USS America of the Kitty Hawk-classUSS America in the Indian Ocean on April 24, 1983. The career of the USS AmericaA U-2 reconnaissance aircraft on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS America. A declassified image of USS America sinking after four weeks of live-fire weapons damage tests in May 2005.
☆ Democrats in U.S. Congress aim to pressure Republicans with go-it-alone funding bill
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Congress has until Dec. 16 to either pass an "omnibus" bill funding the government through Sept. 30, 2023, or a shorter "continuing resolution" to avoid a partial government shutdown. Some conservative Republicans have urged a short-term bill, to delay talks on a full-year bill into January when they will have a stronger negotiating position. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell drew a hard line in opposition. For the last several years, Congress has appropriated government funding that was roughly evenly split between defense and non-defense programs. If the Democrats' effort fail in the Senate next week, Congress might have to resort to a stop-gap funding bill that simply extends current funding levels.
☆ First on CNN: Defense bill takes aim at Russia’s pot of gold
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
New York CNN Business —A must-pass defense bill now being negotiated in Congress includes new sanctions designed to trip up Russia’s war machine by targeting Moscow’s mountain of gold. If passed, the defense bill would directly sanction any American entities that knowingly transact with or transport gold from Russia’s central bank holdings. As of mid-2021, Russia’s central bank held $127 billion worth of gold, according to the Central Bank of Russia. The gold is stored at vaults within the territory of the Russian Federation, the Russian central bank has said. In June, President Joe Biden announced the United States and the rest of the G7 would impose a ban on imports of Russian gold.
☆ Service members kicked out of the U.S. military for refusing Covid vaccine could be allowed to rejoin, officials say
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Courtney-Kube-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Courtney Kube | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
Service members who were kicked out of the U.S. military for refusing the Covid vaccine could be allowed back in uniform if the vaccine mandate is lifted, according to two U.S. military and two senior defense officials. Pentagon leaders are now discussing whether service members who were separated can rejoin if the NDAA is signed into law, the four officials said. After Austin issued his mandate, thousands of active-duty service members were separated for refusing the Covid vaccine. If they left for failing to obey a lawful order, even if it is no longer a lawful order, they may not be allowed to reinstate their commissions. Service members often live and work in close quarters like ships and barracks, making infectious diseases more worrisome.
☆ Boeing Dealt Setback on New 737 MAX Models
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Andrew Tangel | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Boeing has said it will be safer for its new jets to have a common cockpit type with existing 737 MAX airplanes. Federal lawmakers dealt a setback to Boeing Co., proposing a defense bill that didn’t exempt two new 737 MAX models from a new regulatory requirement, as the plane maker had sought. Negotiators in Congress dropped the potential waiver from the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual must-pass bill that lawmakers filed late Tuesday. The waiver’s exclusion from the bill leaves Boeing fewer options during the current Congress to avoid a requirement to perform costly and time-consuming upgrades to the cockpits of its newest 737 models.
☆ Chuck Schumer’s Marijuana Defense Bill
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Legislation that ends up adorned with unrelated giveaways is known in Congress as a Christmas tree. Behold the spectacle as Democrats in the festive spirit try to hang everything from marijuana financing to antitrust policy on the annual defense policy bill. The national defense authorization for 2023 is expected to add $45 billion to President Biden’s request for the Pentagon, and the outline has been known for months. One priority is more arms for Ukraine and backfilling U.S. weapons stocks that are being depleted. Another is a 4.6% pay raise for military members, which is only half the rate of inflation but will be helpful as the force struggles to recruit.
☆ U.S. lawmakers ease planned curbs on Chinese chips amid corporate pushback
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Alexandra Alper | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
The final version no longer forbids contractors from "using" the targeted chips and pushes the compliance deadline back to five years from the immediate or two-year implementation deadlines included in the first version. Chips made by SMIC are commissioned by companies all over the world and can be found in products as diverse as cell phones and cars. They are difficult to identify because chips are not typically labeled with the names of the companies that manufacture them. Lawmakers released a final version of the NDAA Tuesday night. Schumer's office, SMIC, YMTC, CXMT and the Chamber of Commerce did not respond to requests for comment.
☆ Watch CNBC's full interview with Raytheon CEO, Greg Hayes
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with Raytheon CEO, Greg HayesMorgan Brennan speaks with Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes at the 2022 Reagan National Defense Forum.
☆ House to vote on repeal of Pentagon's Covid vaccine mandate for U.S. troops
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
The House of Representatives is set to vote Wednesday on a sweeping defense bill that would repeal the Pentagon's Covid-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. troops. The amendment to eliminate the vaccine mandate is included in the National Defense Authorization Act, a massive $858 billion bill that funds the Pentagon and sets defense policy priorities. The legislation requires the Pentagon to end the vaccine mandate for services members within 30 days of the bill's enactment. The White House has not signaled publicly whether Biden will sign legislation including a repeal of the vaccine mandate. White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that Biden believes repealing the vaccine mandate is a mistake, but the president would look at the bill holistically.
☆ U.S. military bill features up to $10 billion to boost Taiwan
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Patricia Zengerle | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/2] Flags of Taiwan and U.S. are placed for a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan March 27, 2018. Beijing responded angrily when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved broader Taiwan legislation in September despite concerns within President Joe Biden's administration that the bill could go too far in heightening tensions with China. The $858 billion military policy bill is expected to pass Congress and be signed into law this month. The "Taiwan Enhanced Resilience Act" included in the NDAA authorizes appropriations for military grant assistance for Taiwan up to $2 billion per year from 2023 through 2027, if the U.S. secretary of state certifies that Taiwan increased its defense spending. It also includes a new foreign military financing loan guarantee authority and other measures to fast-track Taiwan's weapons procurement, as well as creation of a new training program to improve Taiwan's defense.
☆ Congress dropped a controversial media bill which saw Facebook threaten to ax news in the US if the act passed, report says
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Congress excluded a controversial media bill from the National Defense Authorization Act, on Tuesday. The bill would have forced online platforms like Facebook to pay for news content from publishers. Facebook on Monday threatened to ax news from its platforms in the US if the bill passed. It would require social media firms to pay publishers for their news content. Meta temporarily banned news in Australia in 2021 after a similar law was proposed requiring social media platforms to pay journalism outlets for news content.
☆ Meta avoids showdown over news content in US after journalism bargaining bill shelved
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a key architect of the news media bill, has argued that the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is necessary to help small, local journalism outlets survive in the face of Google and Facebook’s advertising dominance. The News Media Alliance, a supporter of the JCPA, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Among those that signed the letter were the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Wikimedia Foundation and Public Knowledge. The tech industry launched its own offensive to keep the JCPA out of the defense bill, with groups including NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association announcing ad campaigns targeting the measure. Meta, meanwhile, turned to a familiar playbook in threatening to remove from the platform.
☆ White House slams Congress for move to rescind military's vaccine mandate
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
WASHINGTON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday that scrapping the requirement that U.S. troops get vaccinated for COVID-19 is a mistake, as lawmakers moved closer to requiring the Pentagon to rescind its vaccine mandate. President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and military leaders have strongly backed the vaccine mandate as necessary to safeguard the health and readiness of the U.S. armed forces. "We continue to believe that repealing the vaccine mandate is a mistake," White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. The bill is expected to pass the Senate and House this month, and be sent to the White House for Biden to sign into law. Austin said on Monday that the military has no data to back up claims by top Republicans in Congress that the vaccine mandate is hurting recruiting.
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