NDAA Archives - Alpha Democrat

Empty Senate chamber desk where the Duckworth NDAA Iran amendment has kept the defense bill stalled since July

Congress Has Passed a Defense Bill Every Year Since 1961. Tammy Duckworth Is Helping Block This One.

The Duckworth NDAA Iran amendment is the price Senate Democrats have set for letting the defense authorization move.

Photorealistic documentary photograph of a thick printed legislative bill lying open on a wooden desk in a quiet office at night, a green banker's lamp casting warm light across a page of pay tables, a pair of reading glasses and a closed folder beside it, dark window behind, no people present, no identifiable insignia.

A Fact-Checker Took Apart an Attack Ad in Alaska. We Ran the Same Headline in July.

FactCheck.org ruled in July that pro-Sullivan ads mislead when they say Mary Peltola voted against a troop pay raise.

A rain-wet Hartford side street at dusk

VoteVets Put $1 Million Into Hartford. It’s Being Spent Against an Antiwar Democrat.

Two days ago we wrote that a veteran challenging a Democratic incumbent had never been tried with real money behind it.

An empty congressional hearing room after adjournment, representing the House defense bill vote taken before the August recess.

Democrats Voted Against a Troop Pay Raise. Their Veterans Led the Way.

On 22 July the House passed a defense bill carrying a pay raise of five to seven percent for every service member.