No More Murderer’s Row: Tucked into the Senate’s 2006 defense authorization bill is an amendment that puts paid to burial in a national cemetery of anyone who’s convicted of a capital offense. (DR 09/26/05) And, wherever such an individual is buried, there will be no military honors. Senators were unanimous in their endorsement of the legislation sponsored by Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho).
Senator to DOD: Redo Study on Suicide by Job Specialty
Sept. 26, 2024
About two months after the Pentagon released a congressionally mandated study on military suicide rates broken down by career field, the senator who led the charge for the study is telling Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III that the released data falls short of what was required by the law.