Dale Bumpers: “I send seven separate bills to the desk that I am offering on behalf of myself, Senators Bradley, Kohl, Feingold, Pryor…”

“I send seven separate bills to the desk that I am offering on behalf of myself, Senators Bradley, Kohl, Feingold, Pryor, Wellstone, Lautenberg, and other Senators. Just briefly, Mr. President, those bills contain seven specific spending cuts which, over the first 5 years would save $33 billion, and over a 15-year-period would save $114 billion; four of those seven would terminate or cut spending on four specific weapons programs. One would cut the intelligence budget. One would kill NASA's space station program, and the last would kill the Department of Energy's Advanced Neutron Source. Yesterday CBS News and USA Today-CNN released new public opinion polls. Both asked over 1,000 people: What should be the highest priority of this new Congress? Interestingly, according to the CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll, out of about 15 items listed, 45 percent of the people said defense spending should have a very low priority and 11 percent said it should have no priority. Mr. President, 56 percent of the people in that poll said--bear this in mind--defense spending should have no priority or a low priority.”