On the recordJune 19, 1997
I support this rule. No, it does not have everything in it that I would like. I think the gentleman from Virginia mentioned an area that we all ought to be concerned about when we talk about military retirees, but I think basically it is a good rule. But there is one item that I wish we had made in order that I had requested, and that is we are required in the area of defense to do more with less now. And so we want every single dollar to be spent in the most effective way possible. I wish the gentleman had made my Davis-Bacon amendment in order so that we could discuss the amount of savings that could come if we exempted from the Davis-Bacon Act military construction. We are over 70 years behind in our infrastructure capitalization in our armed services. In housing alone, depending on the service, we are 10 to 40 years behind. There simply is not enough money in MILCON to get from here to there under the present circumstances.
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