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Rep. Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Beverly Byron announced the release of a report on sexual harassment in the U.S. military. Rep. Aspin characterized …

The House Armed Services Committee Defense Policy Panel heard testimony on methods to enforce the U.N. resolutions concerning Iraq without resorting to the use of force by a military power. …

The committee heard testimony from the chiefs of each armed service on what their department was doing to eliminate sexual harassment and discrimination. The witnesses were also given the ch…

The committee reviewed how the military addressed racial integration in the past and how the lessons learned from that process may be applied to the gender discrimination issue presently fac…

The Investigations subcommittee heard testimony on allegations of a cover-up in the 1988 interception and downing of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes. Newsweek Magazine and ABC’s Night…

The House Armed Services Committee heard testimony from CIA Director, Robert Gates, on U.S. Security and the Soviet Union. Cameras were only allowed to cover Opening Statements then the Comm…

The House Armed Services Committee’s Defense Policy Panel met for the second day to examine future threats to U.S. security in the post-Cold War era. During his testimony, Ambassador Robert …

The House Armed Services committee’s Military Education panel heard testimony from Brig. Gen. Ken Simpson on the Joint Chiefs of Staff initiatives on improving military education. Brig. Gen.…

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight heard testimony from persons in the Food and Drug Administration on the performance of the FDA in enforcing food and drug safety regul…

The committee heard testimony from private businessperson and former director of the Foreign Policy Association Dwayne Andreas, whose company Archer Daniels Midland Company sells grain to th…

The House Armed Services Defense Policy Panel heard testimony on the conduct of Operation Provide Comfort, the U.S., and coalition allies' program for providing humanitarian aid for Kurdish …

The House Armed Services committee heard testimony on the U.S. military’s system of personnel recruitment. The hearing was one in a series of hearings examining the practices of the U.S. mil…

The Defense Policy panel of the Armed Services Committee met to talk about western support for radical reform in the Soviet Union. At issue was how much technical, financial, and economic ai…

The subcommittee heard testimony on the recommendations of military base closings submitted by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. The Department of Defense stated budget li…

The House Energy Subcommittee heard testimonies on the use of research grant funds in American colleges and universities. The U.S. government regularly pays for some indirect costs related t…

The House Armed Services Committee conducted a hearing on U.S. defense policy in the post-Cold War era. Specifically the committee examined plans for reform of the military in light of its p…

A House Armed Services Subcommittee continued its hearings on U.S. defense policy following the Persian Gulf war. Specifically, the committee heard testimony on the war’s effect on the abili…

The committee heard testimony on the state of the U.S. military following the Persian Gulf War from former military officials. The committee focused specifically on the extent to which lesso…

The subcommittee heard testimony on the medical safety of the U.S.' blood supply. Earlier in the week, an Oregon blood center was discovered to have distributed blood that had been tested im…

The House Armed Services Committee Defense Policy panel heard testimony on the performance of the military command in the Persian Gulf war. The panel sought to investigate how the military s…