Barbara Boxer: “I appreciate the words of my friend from Texas. I just want to point out that our military is fully funded and that some…”

“I appreciate the words of my friend from Texas. I just want to point out that our military is fully funded and that some of us believe our military is so important that it ought to be funded by real dollars, not make-believe smoke and mirrors. I have a press release from the ranking member, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, who said he opposes using budget gimmicks to fund the Pentagon, and he declined to sign the NDAA, which is very unusual. If we really care about our military, and everyone does, we ought to fund with real dollars, not make-believe money--this one called OCO. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that this press release be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Reed Opposes Fundamentally Flawed NDAA Top Democrat on Armed Services Committee opposes using budget gimmicks to fund the Pentagon & declines to sign NDAA conference report Washington, DC.--Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee announced that he will not sign the Conference Report for the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Reed opposes the Conference Report because it uses an inefficient budget gimmick that underfunds the Pentagon's base budget while inflating the emergency war spending account known as the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund, which is exempted from Budget Control Act spending caps.…”