On the recordSeptember 28, 1995
We are within the budget limits. As a matter of fact, if the gentleman will recall when the bill was on the floor, we were $2.2 billion below the armed services authorized level. When we went to conference, actually during the conference, we were presented with an additional cut in our 602(b) allocation, so we have been coming down, since the first of the year, from the numbers that we thought we should have. We have been coming down in a very dramatic way. If we were to freeze the level, as he suggested, what that would do is keep us basically at last year's level and provide for the pay raise that we have promised our men and women who serve in the military. If he wants further cuts, the Defense Department would like to cut the program for breast cancer. They do not want to spend the breast cancer money for the purpose we appropriated. We are going to insist that they spend it.
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