Rep. Mike Rogers said he has “a very high degree of confidence” that Iran is involved in attacks on Israeli officials.

Attorney General Eric Holder said the section of DOMA in question violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

Echoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, leaders of the Army, Navy and Marines outlined the devastation that an additional $500 billion in automatic cuts through sequestration would have on the military at budget hearings this week.

The services said in House hearings Thursday and Friday that sequestration would hollow out the force, urging the cuts be undone before they take effect in January 2013.

The Pentagon is cutting $487 billion over the next decade as a result of the August debt-limit deal, but defense spending also faces an additional $500 billion in across-the-board cuts through sequestration, which were enacted after the supercommittee failed to find $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction.

A veterans group that called for a ticker-tape parade in New York to honor Iraq war veterans is now trying a new tack to get national recognition for Iraq veterans.

The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America said that the dinner planned for at the White House for veterans is a nice gesture, but the group wants more, calling for a “national day of action” to welcome home troops.

A bipartisan group of senators said they will stand by President Obama if he attacks Iran to stop its nuclear program.

A group of anti-war lawmakers on Thursday met with Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, who wrote a report on the war in Afghanistan that contradicted what top military officials have said about the direction of the war.

The five House members — Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) — invited Davis to Capitol Hill for an update about the war.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta railed against Congress Thursday for leaving the threat of a budget sequester hanging over the Pentagon.

"It is a creating a huge shadow of doubt" for the military and defense industry, said Panetta during a House Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing on the fiscal 2013 budget.

Sens. Graham, Lieberman introduced a resolution calling on the United States to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) is planning a “speak-up tour” to get members of the military and the defense industry to speak out publicly against the cuts that are facing the military.

Forbes said Thursday that Congress is also to blame when it comes to cuts to Defense. He said that leadership in Congress “put these blinders on” as they agreed to the August debt deal that led to $487 billion in Pentagon cuts and the potential for an additional $500 billion in cuts if sequestration takes effect in January 2013.