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United States House Armed Services Subcommittee On Readiness
House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness is a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee in the United States House of Representatives. The Chair of the subcommittee is Democrat John Garamendi of California, its Ranking Member is Republican Doug Lamborn of Colorado. Jurisdiction The Readiness Subcommittee exercises oversight and legislative jurisdiction over: # Military readiness # Training # Logistics and maintenance issues and programs # Military construction # Military installations # Family housing issues # Base Realignment and Closure Members, 117th Congress Historical membership rosters 115th Congress 116th Congress See also * United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support is one of seven subcommittees within the Senate Armed Services Committee. Jurisdiction The Readiness and Management Support subcommittee has oversight of military readines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Armed Services Committee
The U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, commonly known as the House Armed Services Committee or HASC, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. It is responsible for funding and oversight of the Department of Defense (DoD) and the United States Armed Forces, as well as substantial portions of the Department of Energy. Its regular legislative product is the National Defense Authorization Act, which has been passed by Congress and signed into law each year since 1962. Jurisdiction The Armed Services Committee has jurisdiction over defense policy generally, ongoing military operations, the organization and reform of the Department of Defense and Department of Energy, counter-drug programs, acquisition and industrial base policy, technology transfer and export controls, joint interoperability, the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, Department of Energy nonproliferation programs, and detainee affairs and policy. History The Armed Services Committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Johnson (Louisiana Politician)
James Michael Johnson (born January 30, 1972) is an American attorney, politician, and former talk radio host serving as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district. First elected in 2016, he is the vice chair of the House Republican Conference. He previously chaired the House Republican Study Committee, the largest caucus of conservatives in Congress, and a coalition of socially and fiscally conservative members of the larger House Republican Conference. From 2015 to 2017, Johnson served as a representative in the Louisiana House of Representatives for the 8th district in Bossier Parish. Early life and education Johnson was born in Shreveport, the oldest of four children of Jeanne Johnson and James Patrick Johnson, a firefighter who founded the nonprofit organization the Percy R. Johnson Burn Foundation, named after his partner Percy R. Johnson, the city's first African-American fire instructor and captain, who died in the line of duty. Johnson was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trent Kelly
John Trent Kelly (born March 1, 1966) is an American lawyer, politician, and U.S. Army general officer from Mississippi. A member of the Republican Party, Kelly is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from . Early life and career John Trent Kelly was born on March 1, 1966, in Union, Mississippi, to John and Barbara Kelly. He is a resident of Saltillo, Mississippi, where he served as the district attorney of Mississippi's 1st Circuit Judicial District, which includes Lee, Pontotoc, Alcorn, Monroe, Itawamba, Prentiss and Tishomingo Counties. Kelly graduated from Union High School in 1984 and joined the Mississippi Army National Guard in 1985. He earned an associate degree from East Central Community College in Decatur before graduating from the University of Mississippi with a bachelor's degree in business administration. Kelly is a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. Kelly graduated from University of Mississippi School of Law in 1994 and received a master's degr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott DesJarlais
Scott Eugene DesJarlais (; born February 21, 1964) is an American politician and physician serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for since 2011. The district stretches across East Tennessee, East and Middle Tennessee. He is a member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party. Early life, education, and medical career DesJarlais was born in 1964 in Des Moines, Iowa, to Joe DesJarlais, a barber, and Sylvia, a registered nurse. He grew up in Sturgis, South Dakota. Over ten years he, his parents and his brother and sister built their own house in Sturgis; his parents still live there. DesJarlais earned his undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Psychology from the University of South Dakota in 1987 and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of South Dakota, University of South Dakota School of Medicine in 1991. He moved to East Tennessee in 1993 to practice medicine as a generalist. U.S. House of Representatives Elections 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha McSally
Martha Elizabeth McSally (born March 22, 1966) is an American politician and former military pilot who served as a United States senator for Arizona from 2019 to 2020. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the U.S. representative for Arizona's 2nd congressional district from 2015 to 2019. McSally served in the United States Air Force from 1988 to 2010, achieving the rank of Colonel. She is the first U.S. woman to fly in combat and also the first to command a fighter squadron. In 2001, McSally successfully sued the United States Department of Defense in ''McSally v. Rumsfeld'', challenging the military policy that required U.S. and UK servicewomen stationed in Saudi Arabia to wear the body-covering abaya when traveling off base in the country. Following an unsuccessful bid in 2012, McSally was elected to the House of Representatives in 2014 and served two terms. McSally was the Republican nominee in Arizona's 2018 U.S. Senate election, losing to Democrat Kyrsten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Stefanik
Elise Marie Stefanik (; born July 2, 1984) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2015. As chair of the House Republican Conference since 2021, she is the third-ranking House Republican. Stefanik's district covers most of the North Country and the Adirondack Mountains, some of the outer suburbs of Utica and the Capital District in New York. Stefanik was 30 when first elected in the 2014 U.S. House of Representatives elections in New York (District 21), the youngest woman elected to Congress at the time. Initially elected as a moderate conservative, Stefanik has shifted increasingly to the political right, aligning herself with then-President Donald Trump. She strongly opposed the first impeachment of Trump in 2019 amid the Trump–Ukraine scandal and backed Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, objecting to Pennsylvania's electoral votes after Trump supporters were involved in the 2021 United States Capito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Jo Hartzler (née Zellmer; born October 13, 1960) is an American politician serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for since 2011. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, she served as the Missouri House of Representatives, Missouri state representative for the 124th district from 1995 to 2000. Hartzler's district comprises a large swath of western-central Missouri, anchored in Columbia, Missouri, Columbia and stretching to the eastern and southern Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City suburbs, including a sliver of Kansas City. The district also includes Sedalia, Missouri, Sedalia, Warrensburg, Missouri, Warrensburg, Moberly, Missouri, Moberly, and Lebanon, Missouri, Lebanon. Hartzler was a candidate in the 2022 United States Senate election in Missouri, but lost the Republican primary to Eric S. Schmitt. Early life and education Hartzler was raised on a farm near Archie, Missouri, Archie, a rural community sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Russell (politician)
Steven Dane Russell (born May 25, 1963) is President and CEO of JAARS, Inc. He is a retired American soldier and former politician. He served in the United States House of Representatives for from 2015 to 2019, after serving in the Oklahoma Senate from 2009 to 2013. Russell is a member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party. Russell reached the rank of lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, and played a significant role in the capture of Saddam Hussein during the Iraq War. He served in the Oklahoma Senate, and ran for the House of Representatives when James Lankford did not run for reelection. After winning two terms in the House, Russell was defeated for re-election in 2018 by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Kendra Horn. After serving as Executive Pastor of First Southern Baptist Church of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from 2019 to 2022, he assumed the position of President and CEO of JAARS, Inc. on October 1, 2022.https://www.jaars.org/wp-con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Bishop
Robert William Bishop (born July 13, 1951) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2003 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he became the dean of Utah's congressional delegation after the retirement of Orrin Hatch from the U.S. Senate in 2019. Prior to his congressional tenure, Bishop was a Utah State Representative (1978–1994), including two final years as Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives, as well as Chair of the Utah Republican Party (1997–2001). He was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Utah as Thomas Wright's running mate in the 2020 election. Early life and education Bishop was born in Kaysville, Utah, and graduated from Davis High School. He served as a Mormon missionary in Germany from 1970 until 1972. Bishop received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1974. Career He taught civics classes at Brigham City's Box Elder High School from 1974 to 1980; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Wilson (U
Joseph or Joe Wilson may refer to: Politicians and government officials United States * Joe Wilson (American politician) (born 1947), U.S. Representative from South Carolina *Joseph C. Wilson (1949–2019), United States ambassador and husband of Valerie Plame Wilson * Joseph G. Wilson (1826–1873), U.S. Representative from Oregon * Joseph Franklin Wilson (1901–1968), U.S. Representative from Texas * Joe N. Wilson (1922–2015), American politician from Iowa * Joseph Harvey Wilson (1810–1884), American politician from North Carolina * Joseph S. Wilson, U.S. Treasury and Department of the Interior official * Joseph T. Wilson (died 1891), American politician, journalist, and author United Kingdom * Joe Wilson (British politician) (born 1937), Member of the European Parliament for North Wales (1989–99) *Joseph Havelock Wilson (1859–1929), British trade union leader and politician New Zealand * Joseph Vivian Wilson (1894–1977), New Zealand ambassador to France Sportsmen Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Rogers (Alabama Politician)
Michael Dennis Rogers (born July 16, 1958) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party of Alabama. Since 2021, he has served as the Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee. From 2019 to 2021, he served as the Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee. Early life and education A sixth-generation resident of Calhoun County in East Alabama, Rogers graduated from Saks High School and earned both his undergraduate degree in political science and Master's of Public Administration at Jacksonville State University. Early political career At age 28, Rogers became the youngest person to join the Calhoun County Commission. In 1994, Rogers won a seat in the Alabama House of Representatives, and became minority leader in his second term. In 2002, Bob Riley was elected governor, leaving the 3rd district seat vacant. Rogers won the Republican nomination. In the general election, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Smith (Washington Politician)
David Adam Smith (born June 15, 1965) is an American politician and retired attorney serving as the U.S. representative for . A member of the Democratic Party, Smith previously served in the Washington State Senate. A graduate of the University of Washington School of Law, Smith briefly worked as a prosecutor and ''pro tem'' judge for the city of Seattle before entering politics. Smith was elected to the State Senate in 1990; at age 25, he was the youngest state senator in the country. He ran in and won his first congressional race in 1996, and has been reelected 11 times. Since 2019, he has chaired the House Armed Services Committee. Smith is a member of the New Democrat Coalition and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He is the dean of Washington's House delegation. Early life and education Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in SeaTac, Washington, Smith was adopted as an infant by Lelia June (née Grant) and his maternal uncle Ben Martin Smith III. He attended Bow Lake El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
