On the recordMarch 27, 2003
This Administration seems to be fixated on the military side of the equation at the expense of the domestic side.
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Robert C. Byrd
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congress.govThis Administration seems to be fixated on the military side of the equation at the expense of the domestic side.
Byrd critiques the administration's focus on military funding over domestic security.
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Promoting efficiency and preventing fraud in defense acquisitions will obviously be a high priority.
I am equally worried that the administration has no agenda to manage what appears to be a worsening nuclear crisis in North Korea.
Well, I have to tell you, Mr. Secretary, this seems to me to be an abuse, a serious abuse, of supplemental appropriations requests.
Will these funds be sufficient to address the complaints that we have heard, and that you heard also, Mr. Secretary, when you were visiting there, that our troops are scrounging for armor in trash dumps?