AAAA Legislative Report

摘要

As this edition hits your mailbox in late January, 2019 will be in our rear view mirror as will those awful words, "Continuing Resolution," which generated so much uncertainty for our Army Aviation enterprise. The week before Christmas, Washington D.C. was filled with high drama with the House of Representatives impeaching our President. The impeachment hearings, stern debate, and the ultimate vote marked a somber historical moment that will play out in the coming months in the U.S. Senate. Fortunately, and despite a week of impeachment gloom and doom, Members of Congress were working behind the scenes on mini-bus appropriations bills for various government agencies. What once looked like an all-year Continuing Resolution situation came to an end the Friday before Christmas as Congress passed the appropriation bills that included a Defense budget totaling $738B. Happy Holidays DoD; no government shutdown and appropriations bill. What does this mean? It means full funding for the DoD, to include our Army Aviation enterprise, thus new start programs can commence and our leaders in the Pentagon can focus exclusively on the FY21 defense budget that will go to Congress in February.