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	Center for Legislative Archives - 1981-1996
		Senator Tower and committee staff helped formulate the Fiscal Year 1982 Defense Authorization bill, which they regarded as "the blueprint' and the "stepping stone in the Reagan defense buildup." Finally, the Armed Services Committee reported its first Omnibus Defense Authorization bill in 1983 which departed from the pattern of reporting separate authorization bills.
		When Senator Nunn became chairman of the committee in 1987, he was regarded as the Senate's authoritative voice on defense issues and possessed a talent for staking out a politically stable middle ground on which to anchor defense policies.
		Appointed to the committee in 1959, the year Russell created the requirement for annual authorization, Senator Thurmond watched the authorization process evolve for 34 years and understood that enactment of the defense authorization bill and the power of the Armed Services Committee had become one and the same.
	www.archives.gov /legislative/finding-aids/reference/senate/armed-services/1981-1996.html?template=print (1022 words)

	U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Committee on Armed Services is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of the nation's military, including the Department of Defense, military research and development, nuclear energy (as pertaining to national security), benefits for members of the military, the Selective Service System and other matters related to defense policy.
		The Armed Services Committee was created as a result of the Legislative Reorginization Act of 1946 following US victory in the Second World War.
		The Armed Services Committee is currently chaired by Senator John Warner (R-VA) and the ranking Democrat is Senator Carl Levin (D-MI).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Senate_Armed_Services_Committee (462 words)

	Transcript, hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "Fiscal Year 2005 National Defense Authorization ...
		Senator Levin, distinguished members of the committee, I'm honored for this opportunity to appear before you today to provide my assessment of Latin America and the Caribbean and what the United States Southern Command is doing to advance United States interests in this very important region of the world.
		WARNER: Senator, your question is very important, but I think the record should reflect that our troops, by virtue of their physical presence in that region, are subjected to a fairly high degree of risk.
		Senator, let me start, if I may. We think missile defense in the Pacific is tremendously important, and, of course, on the national level also.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/040401tran.htm (12917 words)

	U.S. Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island
		Senator Reed announced that he will introduced legislation to require big oil companies to pay a tax on "windfall" profits and direct that revenue to help low-income families and seniors pay their heating bills this winter.
		Senator Reed today called on the Chief Executive Officers of nine top oil companies to contribute 10-percent of their company’s record high profits to state and non-profit fuel funds to help low-income families and seniors pay their heating bills this winter.
		Senator Reed is urging the federal government to update and modernize decades old federal flood insurance maps with recent Army Corps of Engineer data on possible flood damage from hurricanes.
	reed.senate.gov (1021 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Rumsfeld Testifies Before Senate Armed Services Committee
		WARNER: Committee of the Armed Services meets today in the first of a series of hearings to receive testimony regarding the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by some -- I repeat some -- elements and certain personnel of the armed forces of the United States, in violation of U.S. and international laws.
		I'm also terribly saddened at the hundreds of thousands of service men and women who are serving or who have served so honorably in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere, what have their reputation tarnished and their accomplishments diminished by those few who don't uphold our military's values.
		I think the issue of the International Committee of the Red Cross allowing one of their reports to be made public is an issue for them, because they worry that they will not be told the truth when they go into countries where there are dictatorships and where people are systematically punished and tortured.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A8575-2004May7?language=printer (18899 words)

	Senator Clinton Appointed to Armed Services Committee
		Washington, DC - Following a meeting of Democratic Senators to ratify new committee assignments, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said she had been appointed to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
		According to the Congressional Research Service, Senator Clinton is the first New York Senator to serve on this committee since it was established in 1947.
		Senator Clinton also serves on the Health, Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee.
	clinton.senate.gov /news/2003/01/2003114837.html (465 words)

	Senator Carl Levin (D-MI): In the Senate: Committees & Task Forces: Armed Services Committee
		Senator Levin is a leader of four such task forces benefiting both Michigan and the nation.
		Throughout his Senate career, Senator Carl Levin has been a member of the Armed Services Committee, including service as the chairman of the committee from June 2001 to January 2003.
		He supports the efforts of the military services to transform their forces, technology, and tactics to meet the new, emerging threats of the 21st Century, particularly the threat of international terrorism.
	www.levin.senate.gov /senate/armedservices (439 words)

	CNN.com - GOP split as Senate panel bucks Bush on terror tribunals - Sep 15, 2006
		John Warner of Virginia, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Sen Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
		Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, has threatened to ignore the Armed Services Committee and bring the administration's plan directly to the Senate floor, which could lead to an election-year showdown within Republican ranks.
		The House Armed Services Committee passed legislation that authorizes terrorist tribunals that closely adheres to the Bush administration proposal on Wednesday.
	www.cnn.com /2006/POLITICS/09/14/congress.tribunals/index.html (978 words)

	"Transforming the Reserve Component for the 21st Century"
		I joined with Senators Lindsay Graham and Tom Daschle to sponsor an amendment to this year's Department of Defense Authorization bill to lift the limitations placed on Guard and Reserve participants, as well as their families, in the TRICARE military health insurance program.
		I also joined with Senator Lindsey Graham last year to introduce the "National Guard and Reserves Reform Act for the 21st Century." Along with the expanded access to TRICARE, the bill addresses the burden placed on employers and small businesses when their employees or their owners are deployed for extended periods.
		Senator Lindsey Graham comes to this with a lot of experience being a reserve Air Force JAG officer and has seen first hand these problems that our legislation is seeking to remedy.
	clinton.senate.gov /~clinton/speeches/2004924704.html (3687 words)

	Senate Committee on Armed Services - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		John McCain, the Ranking Member in the 110th Congress, began scrutinizing a $15 billion contract awarded to Boeing for search and rescue helicopters granted in 2006.
		Votes and legislation in this committee covered by Congresspedia
		"Senate to Investigate Walter Reed Scandal," TPMmuckraker, February 26, 2007.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Senate_Armed_Services_Committee (207 words)

	CRG: Dr David Kay's Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee
		KAY: Senator Warner, that's certainly true, particularly with regard to the foreign countries and individuals that assisted that program which remain a continuing threat in other countries, unless we know fully who they were and what they contributed.
		Senator Robert Byrd just informed me that he is required to be on the floor for the vote and other reasons.
		WARNER: By way of introduction, Senator Roberts, say that I feel that you and the committee that you lead are making a lot of progress toward coming to a body of fact, putting it together, that will help not only members of Congress but others trying to have a better understanding of this situation.
	www.globalresearch.ca /articles/KAY401A.html (18120 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		Senate Armed Services Chairman John Warner used this hearing to disclose the fact that privately this morning the Pentagon informed the committee that the Pentagon has a new disc of photos, a new disc of images that may show more abuses at the Iraqi prison, Abu Ghraib.
		The Senate is going on a recess next week, so Chairman Warner is privately saying to his staff that he wants to get these images up to Capitol Hill as soon as possible this week so that senators can find out what is in this new disc of photos.
		And even within the Senate there are conservatives on this Senate Committee, like Senator John Cornyn of Texas who will be speaking in a little while, who have been saying publicly they believe this investigation may be going too far.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0405/19/se.02.html (2954 words)

	Clark at Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		SENATOR REED: Another aspect which we encountered when we were visiting there in July was the presence of mines.
		SENATOR WARNER: I feel that since the election in Croatia was successful, we ought to move with elections in Kosovo expeditiously.
		SENATOR WARNER: Well, that's a very important response, because translated, to me it means, one, Serbia is Milosevic, and until Milosevic goes, we've got to keep troops in significant levels in these places.
	www.usembassy.it /file2000_02/alia/a0020414.htm (3818 words)

	Global Network - Statement on House & Senate Armed Services Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		While the Democrats on the committee stated that the $7 billion would be a cut from Bush's requested amount of $8.3 billion, they also reassured the public that it was still a 37% increase over Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) funding levels in 2001.
		The House Armed Services Committee, on August 1 recommended $8.2 billion for BMDO in 2002.
		The full House and Senate still have to debate the 2002 funding levels in the coming weeks and several amendments will be expected as opponents attempt to seriously cut Star Wars funding.
	www.space4peace.org /articles/statement.htm (276 words)

	Ted Kennedy \| Statement by Senator Kennedy at the Senate Armed Services Committee
		Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said that seeing the briefs is the only way lawmakers can determine whether the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to justify the war—and the best way to ensure that future presidents and Congress are on the same page when it comes to crucial intelligence matters.
		Senate Democrats want Bush to release the Iraq-related items in the Presidential Daily Briefs from the first two years of his presidency and from the last year of the Clinton administration.
		Senate aides said the Clinton-era briefs are important because Bush has said that he and President Clinton had seen the same intelligence.
	www.tedkennedy.com /content/1313/statement-by-senator-kennedy-at-the-senate-armed-services-committee (821 words)

	Senate Testimony/ Armed Services Committee/F-18
		The members of this committee, I'm sure, are well aware of the problem in obtaining a frank opinion from subordinate officers within a service or any data from service spokesmen which does not support an OSD position.
		Starting with the fighter case, we find by interpolating the Navy program cost and delivery data given in the Senate Appropriations Committee Lightweight Fighter Hearings, that the first 400 aircraft will be delivered between the years 1981 and 1986 at a total program acquisition price of $5.3B in constant FY '75 dollars.
		Two years ago before this committee, the Navy testified that the F-14 with its multi-shot system and Phoenix missiles was equivalent to at least three F-4 aircraft with its single shot system carrying Sparrow missiles against a moderate performance bomber raid.
	www.georgespangenberg.com /vf12.htm (2335 words)

	CNN.com - Transcript: David Kay at Senate hearing - Jan. 28, 2004
		Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.
		I told Sen. [John] Warner [chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee] earlier that I've been drawn back as a result of recent film of reminding me of something.
		Terms under which this service is provided to you.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/01/28/kay.transcript (1624 words)

	Daily Briefing -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com
		While she is, strictly speaking, a new hire, she worked closely with the staff for four years as Warner's military affairs aide, and spent her first decade on the Hill as an Armed Services staffer, before Warner tapped her as GOP staff director on one of his other committees, Intelligence.
		It is a job made unusually complex by the fact that Armed Services breaks its subcommittees down not by budget title, but by mission area (Airland Forces, Strategic Forces, Seapower, and so on), each of which has some research dollars and some procurement dollars.
		A longtime Hill veteran who returned to the committee from the private sector to take this job, the scarily smart Lyles goes about his work with green eyeshades and a knife.
	www.governmentexecutive.com /hillpeople/sassb.htm (1258 words)

	Senator Carl Levin: Statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The purpose of these hearings is to give the Administration an opportunity to present its position on Iraq, and to allow this Committee to examine the Administration's proposal with Administration witnesses and experts outside of the government.
		We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region.
		Members of this Committee are ever mindful of the fact that confronting the threat posed by Saddam Hussein could ultimately lead to committing U.S. military forces, including ground forces, to combat.
	levin.senate.gov /senate/statement.cfm?id=211370 (902 words)

	NPR : Senate Armed Services Committee OKs Gates
		All Things Considered, December 5, 2006 · The Senate Armed Services Committee votes unanimously to approve Robert Gates as the new secretary of defense.
		Several senators praised Gates for his candor, and lauded his statements that the current course in Iraq is "unsatisfactory" and "all options are on the table" in crafting a new course.
		He told senators that the United States should not be afraid to talk directly to its adversaries, as it did during the Cold War.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6582942&ft=1&f=1001 (1334 words)

	The Senate Armed Services Committee's About Face on the Missile Defense Act
		The Senate Armed Services Committee voted on July 24 to cut funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), to delay the deployment of ground-based anti-missile interceptors, and to all but eliminate research on future space-based anti-missile interceptors.
		Painstakingly cobbled together by the Senate Armed Services Committee last July, the MDA was signed into law by George Bush on December 5, 1991.
		Moreover, the committee says now that the first SDI site will be constructed in 2002, not in 1996, as promised last year, or in 2000, as the Pentagon has planned.
	www.heritage.org /Research/MissileDefense/EM338.cfm (1100 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Ensign appointed to Senate Armed Services Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He also sits on the Senate Commerce Committee and is angling for one more spot, on the Budget Committee.
		Armed Services has jurisdiction over a wide range of issues that affect the military branches.
		The Armed Services panel's jurisdiction does not include setting budgets for the Defense Department -- most military money matters are decided in the Appropriations Committee.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2002/dec/17/514398086.html (285 words)

	RealClearPolitics - Articles - Opening Statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee
		Chairman, members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to testify.
		Senator Clinton, thank you for seconding the motion.
		I know that everything we do in the Department of Defense and what you do on this committee affects them and their wonderfully supportive families.
	www.realclearpolitics.com /articles/2006/08/opening_statement_before_the_s.html (922 words)

	Senate Panel Unanimously Recommends Gates, Armed Services Committee Gives Thumbs-Up To Defense Secretary Nominee - CBS ...
		At a Senate confirmation hearing that was long on praise for Gates and short on criticism, the man President Bush picked to replace Donald H. Rumsfeld said he is open to new ideas about altering the U.S. course in Iraq.
		Bush, and the former CIA director assured the committee that he would not shirk from that duty.
		Defense Secretary nominee Robert Gates said during his Senate confirmation hearing that the U.S. is not winning or losing the war in Iraq "at this point." David Martin has more.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/12/05/politics/main2232377.shtml (979 words)

	SASC: Clark on U.S. Policy Toward Iraq - 9-23-02
		Chairman, Senator Allard, distinguished members of the committee.
		In 1997, 1998, he resisted the actions of the U.N. arms inspectors.
		The United States was unable to muster the kind of majority and weight of opinion in the United Nations to change the equation on the ground in Iraq.
	www.iraqwatch.org /government/US/HearingsPreparedstatements/sasc-clark-092302.htm (797 words)

	The Raw Story \| Senate Armed Services Committee defies Bush; Passes its own terrorism tribunal bill
		The Senate Armed Services Committee defied President Bush today by passing its own terrorism tribunal bill to protect the rights of terror detainees.
		Senator Susan M. Collins was the fourth Republican to vote for the bill.
		"Voting 15-9, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved the bill they said would provide suspects more legal rights than Bush wanted and resisted his attempt to more narrowly define the Geneva Conventions' standards for humane treatment of prisoners," reports Reuters.
	www.rawstory.com /news/2006/Senate_Armed_Services_Committee_defies_Bush_0914.html (414 words)

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