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The lawmakers warned pulling troops out of Africa in favor of a "narrow focus on confronting Russia and China" would be "shortsighted." Read more »

Congress included a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act, passed in December, directing the Pentagon to work with the departments of Energy and Homeland Security to research ways to make fuel out of carbon dioxide pulled directly from ocean water and the ambient air. Read more »

Spearheaded by Maryland Democrat Rep. Anthony Brown, the lawmakers said in a letter to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper that cutting back U.S. troops in Africa was antithetical to the National Security Strategy Congress backs. Read more »

Democrats have called the administration’s justification for the strike into question after Pompeo and other administration officials briefed Congress about the operation Wednesday. Read more »

Six U.S. senators and more than a dozen members of Congress are demanding the Environmental Protection Agency take “immediate steps” to show the agency will hold states accountable to a Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan Read more »

“The only alternative to conflict is robust diplomacy,” Brown said. “We must reduce the risk of miscalculation and find an opening for creative dialogue with Tehran. It is time to turn the page on the Administration’s bankrupt policy in the Middle East of the last three years.” Read more »

Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Md., a veteran, said he did not hear “a single factual predicate that was offered in that briefing that supports the conclusion that the threat was imminent, nor did we get a real flavor and feel for the nature of the intelligence." Read more »

"I really think that it is important to understand the facts that prompted that decision,” Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.) said about hearing from the administration on Soleimani’s killing. “I believe it was a bad decision. But we should fully understand the underlying facts, I think, before we bring to the floor a resolution." Read more »

I was taught to take care of my environment. Cardin and Van Hollen and Brown have demonstrated their commitment to caring for the Bay which is both influential and inspirational. Read more »

"Was it an assassination based on retribution, what [Soleimani] has done, or ... was it based on an imminent threat of what might occur?" Brown continued. "That’s where I think a lot of us walked away scratching our heads, saying 'where’s the beef?'" Read more »