A critical bill containing language championed by Senator Mark Begich to reject Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) in Fiscal Year 2014 without first reducing costs and closing bases overseas cleared a major legislative hurdle yesterday as the full Senate Appropriations Committee passed legislation to provide appropriations for military construction and family housing and the Department […]
U.S. Sen. Mark Begich released the following statement after learning that the National Security Administration (NSA) secretly obtained millions of phone communications from Verizon Wireless users in the United States.
U.S. Senator Mark Begich continued his fight to maintain a strong Army presence in Alaska in a letter sent to top Army brass stressing the strategic importance of the state and its current Army force structure.
U.S. Senators Mark Begich, Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced legislation on Thursday to strengthen the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Commissioned Officer Corps as a national asset and improve its ability to recruit and retain talented candidates like other uniformed services.