Political Quotes

“This amendment is very similar to NDAA amendments that have been presented to and rejected by this House each of the last 4 years in a row. One of the reasons this amendment has failed so many times is that even the Obama administration opposed it. A few years ago, President Obama's Assistant Secretary of Defense told us that this type of multidecade report was a bad idea. He called such a report ``burdensome,'' explaining, ``As you would expect, looking out that far, 25 years, the credibility of the numbers would be very, very suspect.'' He went on to say: ``Forecasting DOD costs over a 25-year period with any useful accuracy is extremely difficult given the challenges of predicting developments in the international security environment and ongoing technological advancements.'' {time} 1915 The Trump administration opposes it, too. Here is the view of the current Department of Defense on this idea: ``Projecting out 20 years will result in even lower quality cost estimates with a higher degree of uncertainty. . . . `' They go on to say: ``Given these and other uncertainties, cost estimates that project beyond 10 years into the future provide little value in understanding either the Department's fiscal position or its performance in managing programs.'' This amendment would not result in good, effective oversight and transparency. It would result in false, unreliable data entering the public debate.…”