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Norman D. Dicks: “I am not going to get into a percentage number because I think that may be classified itself. I am just going to say the…”

On the recordSeptember 7, 1995
I am not going to get into a percentage number because I think that may be classified itself. I am just going to say the defense budget itself has been cut by 37 percent between 1985 and 1995 or about $100 billion. We are down from $350 billion to $250 billion. If the gentleman would go on with me for one more second, in procurement, we are going to have a procurement readiness problem out there in the future. The cut is from $135 billion to $41 billion. We have been cutting defense very dramatically, and the intelligence budget has been cut as part of that. President Clinton, when he ran for President, talked about cutting it by 1.5 percent per year. We have cut it beyond that. We have cut it more deeply than that. The gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Murtha] has been the person who, when he was chairman, made serious cuts in that budget.
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Discussing cuts to the defense and intelligence budgets during a floor speech.

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