16-459: (Redirected from Armed Services Committee ) Committee on Armed Services can refer to: United States Senate Committee on Armed Services United States House Committee on Armed Services Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Committee on Armed Services . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
32-595: A printed volume of the hearing identified as "Statements for the Record" . In years past, this particular section of the Congressional Record was called the "Appendix". While members of either body may insert material into Extensions of Remarks, Senators rarely do so. The overwhelming majority of what is found there is entered at the request of Members of the House of Representatives. From a legal standpoint, most materials in
48-601: A result of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 following the U.S. victory in World War II . The bill merged the responsibilities of the Committee on Naval Affairs , established in 1816, and the Committee on Military Affairs , also established in 1816. Considered one of the most powerful Senate committees, its broad mandate allowed it to report some of the most extensive and revolutionary legislation during
64-906: Is Democrat Jack Reed of Rhode Island, and the Ranking Member is Republican Roger Wicker of Mississippi (2023). According to the Standing Rules of the United States Senate , all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects are referred to the Armed Services Committee: Source: 2010 Congressional Record , Vol. 156, Page S6226 Source: 2011 Congressional Record , Vol. 157, Page S557 Source: 2013 Congressional Record , Vol. 159, Page S296 Source: Congressional Record The Congressional Record
80-520: 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
96-562: Is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress , published by the United States Government Publishing Office and issued when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record Index is updated daily online and published monthly. At the end of a session of Congress, the daily editions are compiled in bound volumes constituting the permanent edition. Chapter 9 of Title 44 of
112-656: The Cold War years, including the National Security Act of 1947 . The committee tends to take a more bipartisan approach than other committees, as many of its members formerly served in the military or have major defense interests located in the states they come from. The committee's regular legislative product is the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which has been passed by Congress and signed into law annually since 1962. The current chair
128-467: The Congressional Record are classified as secondary authority , as part of a statute's legislative history . By custom and rules of each house, members also frequently "revise and extend" their remarks made on the floor before the debates are published in the Congressional Record . Therefore, for many years, speeches that were not delivered in Congress appeared in the Congressional Record , including in
144-647: The Register of Debates , the first series of publications containing congressional debates. The Register of Debates contains summaries of "leading debates and incidents" of the period rather than a verbatim debate transcript. From 1834 to 1856, Gale and Seaton retroactively compiled the Annals of Congress , covering congressional debates from 1789 to 1824 using primarily newspaper accounts. When Andrew Jackson's Democrats came into power in congress around 1830, Gales and Seaton's popularity declined due to their differing views with
160-602: The THOMAS database in 2016). Thanks to a partnership between GPO and the Library of Congress, digital versions of the bound editions are available on govinfo.gov for 1873 to 2001 (Volumes 1-147) and 2005 to 2015 (Volumes 151-161). Govinfo.gov also provides access to digital versions of the daily edition from 1994 (Volume 140) to the present. In early United States history, there was no record of Congressional debates. The contemporary British Parliament from which Congress drew its tradition
176-723: The United States Code authorizes publication of the Congressional Record . The Congressional Record consists of four sections: the House section, the Senate section, the Extensions of Remarks, and, since the 1940s, the Daily Digest. At the back of each daily issue is the Daily Digest, which summarizes the day's floor and committee activities and serves as a table of contents for each issue. The House and Senate sections contain proceedings for
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#1732849135154192-556: The War of 1812, public sessions became commonplace. In the early 1800s, political reporting was dominated by National Intelligencer , the first newspaper of Washington, D.C. Newspapers with reporters in the chamber regularly published floor statements in their reports. Joseph Gales and William Seaton , the editors of the Intelligencer , became regular fixtures in the House and Senate chambers. In 1824, Gales and Seaton began publishing
208-517: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Committee_on_Armed_Services&oldid=758581347 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages United States Senate Committee on Armed Services The Committee on Armed Services , sometimes abbreviated SASC for Senate Armed Services Committee ,
224-530: The sections purporting to be verbatim reports of debates. In recent years, however, these revised remarks have been preceded by a "bullet" symbol or, more recently and currently, printed in a typeface discernibly different from that used to report words spoken by members. The Congressional Record is publicly available for records before 1875 via the Library of Congress ' American Memory Century of Lawmaking website, and since 1989 via Congress.gov (which replaced
240-451: The separate chambers of Congress. A section of the Congressional Record titled Extensions of Remarks contains speeches, tributes and other extraneous words that were not uttered during open proceedings of the full Senate or of the full House of Representatives. Witnesses in committee hearings are often asked to submit their complete testimony "for the record" and only deliver a summary of it in person. The full statement will then appear in
256-670: Was a highly secretive body, and publishing parliamentary proceedings in Britain did not become legal until 1771. The Constitution , in Article ;I , Section 5, requires Congress to keep a journal of its proceedings, but both the House Journal and the Senate Journal include only a bare record of actions and votes rather than records of debates. In the first twenty years, Congress made frequent use of secret sessions. Beginning with
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