Ronald Dellums: “So this is not about B-2. We have them. It is about an extraordinary amount of money. Now, as I said, the CBO costed out…”

“So this is not about B-2. We have them. It is about an extraordinary amount of money. Now, as I said, the CBO costed out at $27 billion to build nine. The Comptroller, $21 billion. Let us look at the budget. Mr. Chairman, if you will recall, the budget resolution that we are about to agree to, all the newspaper headlines, great deal, balanced budget is now being addressed. In that balanced budget, there was $17.5 billion of additional money for the Department of Defense over and above the President's request during the 5 years of this so-called balanced budget, $17.5 billion. Now, the unbudgeted Quadrennial Defense Review has already claimed the $17.5 billion and will claim the entire portion of it. My distinguished colleague, the gentleman from Washington [Mr. Dicks], earlier in the context of the debate on the rule, pointed out that there was some $20 billion slush fund, referred to as the weapon procurement reserve fund, that they could magically take this $13.6 billion out of that fund to fund this additional B-2. But they say nothing about where they are going to get the 13.2 down the road. But let us talk about the 13.6. This was an item placed in the 5-year defense plan that would not appear in the budget next year because what this fund was established to do was to look at the problems of underfunding in the weapon procurement account that would come about as a result of the Quadrennial Defense Review. Now let us look at how they are going to spend this money.…”