New chairmen poised to challenge Obama on national security | TheHill: Senate Republicans are preparing to use their new majority to press President Obama on a number of national security challenges.
The newly empowered incoming Republican chairmen are vowing to make the case for a more robust agenda from reversing sequestration cuts at the Pentagon to boosting the U.S.-led military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and protecting intelligence programs.
At the top of their list is limiting looming budget cuts under sequestration.
“My top priority is to try to repeal sequestration and get the Armed Services committee functioning in its proper of policy, determining budgets rather than budgets determining policy,” says Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is poised to chair the Senate Armed Services Committee.
