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unusual facts about United States House Committee on Armed Services



Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame

Representative Howard McKeon, Chairman of the United States House Committee on Armed Services, said transferring Warsame out of Guantanamo "directly contradicts Congressional intent and the will of the American people", and Senator Susan Collins stated that captured foreign nationals "should be tried in a military commission, not a federal civilian court in New York or anywhere else in our country".

John A. T. Hull

He served as chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs from the Fifty-fourth through Sixty-first Congresses.

LaVena Johnson

Following a February 2007 KMOV news report on Johnson's death, an online petition addressed to the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee was launched.

Philip J. Philbin

At the very end of the 91st United States Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, due to the death of L. Mendel Rivers on December 28, 1970.


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