June 2020
Date Title
6/5/20 Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Thornberry Announce Markup Schedule for Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act
6/5/20 Smith and 30 HASC Democrats Call for Accountability from Military Leadership on Behalf of the American People
6/4/20 HASC Schedule: June 8 – 12
6/3/20 Smith, Nadler, Grijalva, and Thompson Call for Answers on Trump Administrations Use of Force Against Peaceful DC Protestors
6/3/20 Smith Calls on Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to Explain Military Activity in Washington, D.C.
6/2/20 Smith Demands Answers on the Apparent Militarization of America
6/1/20 Smith Statement on Trump’s Intent to Invoke the Insurrection Act
May 2020
Date Title
5/29/20 HASC Schedule: June 1 - 5
5/22/20 Smith, Speier Call on President Trump to Extend National Guard Activation to Combat COVID-19
5/22/20 Smith and 20 Armed Services Democrats Slam Trump Administration’s Open Skies Treaty Withdrawal
5/22/20 Smith & Engel Denounce Trump Administration’s Illegal Withdrawal from Open Skies Treaty
5/21/20 Smith, Cooper Statement on Trump Administration’s Withdrawal From the Open Skies Treaty
5/18/20 Smith Statement on Navy’s First Transgender Service Waiver
5/15/20 Smith, Thornberry Sign Bipartisan, Bicameral Letter to Administration in Support of MFO in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula
5/8/20 Smith, Thornberry, and 20 Bipartisan Members Demand Answers From FCC
April 2020
Date Title
4/29/20 Smith Statement on the Navy’s Additional Investigation of the COVID-19 Outbreak Aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt
4/28/20 Smith Slams Trump Administration’s Continued Theft of DoD Funding
4/28/20 Smith, Thornberry Statement on FY21 NDAA Process
4/24/20 Smith Statement on the Navy’s Investigation of the COVID-19 Outbreak Aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt
4/17/20 Smith Statement on DOD Inspector General’s JEDI Findings
4/17/20 Smith Slams High-Risk Ligado Request
4/15/20 Leading National Security Democrats Raise Alarm over Trump Admin’s Dispute With South Korea Over Cost-Sharing Deal
4/14/20 Smith Statement on One-Year Anniversary of Trump’s Discriminatory Transgender Ban
4/9/20 Smith, Pallone, & Thompson Urge President Trump to Coordinate Production and Acquisition of COVID-19 Response Supplies
4/7/20 Smith Statement on Resignation of Acting Secretary of the Navy Modly