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On Thursday March 25, 2021 at 9:30 a.m., the Senate Committee on Armed Services will hold a hearing on the U.S. Special Operations Command and the U.S. Cyber Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal 2022 and the Future Years Defense Program.
In a letter addressed to the Department of Defense Acting Inspector General Sean O’Donnell, Sens. Mark Warner and Jack Reed have requested that the acting inspector general “investigate the process for the recent selection” of the newly selected General Counsel to the National Security Agency (NSA).
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing today to receive testimony on United States European Command and United States Transportation Command as part of a review of the defense authorization request for fiscal year 2021. The Committee heard from Gen. Tod Wolters, commander of European Command, and Gen. Stephen Lyons, the commander of Transportation Command.
You can watch a video stream of the hearing here.
President Donald Trump signed the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2019 into law on Monday afternoon, at an event at Fort Drum military base in upstate New York.
The joint House and Senate conference committee for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 2019 has agreed upon and released a reconciled version of the bill. Both the reconciled statutory text and accompanying joint explanatory statement are posted below:
Bill Text
There actually wasn’t that much new information conveyed at yesterday’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Russian election hacking and other foreign cybersecurity threats.
Watchdogs on the Hill: The Decline of Congressional Oversight of U.S. Foreign Relations
Linda L. Fowler
(Princeton UP 2015)
Executive power is on the rise, a familiar argument runs, and necessarily at the expense of Congressional authority. Linda L. Fowler, professor emerita in government at Dartmouth College, examines another direction of this claim with respect to US foreign policy and national security - what she describes as the decline of Congressional oversight over foreign relations. The tilt in the balance of power toward the president, that is, is not simply the executive's enlargement of its sphere, but Congress's affirmative withdrawal in key matters of foreign policy oversight.
General John F. Campbell, Commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, testified before for the Senate Armed Services Committee on Military Operations in Afghanistan.
You can watch the hearing here.
The Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, and Director of the NSA Adm. Michael Rogers on "U.S. Cybersecurity Policy and Threats."
You can watch the hearing here.