C. W. Bill Young: “I did not want anyone to misunderstand. This did not exempt anything. This could be across the board. What would it cut?…”

“I did not want anyone to misunderstand. This did not exempt anything. This could be across the board. What would it cut? How about the $475 million that we had to add for medical care that was identified by the Surgeon General, a serious addition that we made that the President did not ask for; the billion dollars that we added for barracks renovation and real property at bases; $125 million for breast cancer research and treatment? Mr. Chairman, all of these things would be gone, because what we would do under her amendment was to allow the Pentagon officials to decide where to make these cuts. The items that I just mentioned were not on the Pentagon's list, so obviously would be on the top of their list to cut. So I say we should not spend any time on this amendment. We ought to go to a vote and defeat it soundly because it is not workable.”