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Washington, D.C. – Ranking Member John M. McHugh (R-NY) today released a list of subcommittee assignments for Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee.  The leadership and membership of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will be announced separately.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman John M. McHugh, Ranking Republican of the House Armed Services Committee, today announced his committee leadership team for the 111th Congress.  The subcommittee structure is expected to be ratified at the full House Armed Services Committee organizational meeting on Wednesday, January 14, with membership of the seven subcommittees decided in the days following the organizational meeting.

Washington D.C. – Republican members on the House Armed Services Committee today hailed last week’s successful intercept test of the ground-based midcourse defense system as a step forward in the United States’ ability to defend the country against limited long-range ballistic missile attacks.  The test, involving a ground-based interceptor launched from the Ronald W. Reagan Missile Defense Site at Vandenburg Air Force Base in California, illustrated that elements of the United States Ballistic Missile Defense System are able to provide a defense against the type of long-range ballistic missile that could be used to attack the United States or its allies.

Washington D.C. – Republican members on the House Armed Services Committee today called attention to Democrat plans to cut national defense spending by twenty-five percent—or approximately $150 billion from the  $607 billion in defense spending that was enacted in Fiscal Year 2008.  While meeting with the South Coast Standard-Times, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, called “for a 25 percent cut in military spending” and stated that “we don’t need all these fancy new weapons.”