On the recordJuly 29, 1997
I just wanted to say, Mr. Chairman, that it is obvious to me that the sponsors of this amendment, as well meaning as they are, have not read our report because in this report we explain how we cut over 200 programs from this bill, which is, by the way, the 13th appropriations bill for national defense, 13th one in a row that is less than the year before in actual purchasing ability. We cut over 200 programs. They are described in this report, and we targeted the Pentagon bureaucracy and their overhead. The QDR recommended certain reductions for next year; we took them for this year, $325 million worth. Other headquarters reductions, we took $149 million; civilian personnel overbudgeting, we took $245 million; for consultants and advisory services, we took $210 million; for defense dual use and commercialization programs, we took $188 million. We stopped certain programs. JASSM; $140 million, we took out of the program.
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