C. W. Bill Young

Mr. Chairman, one of the many responsibilities that members of this subcommittee have is to look out for the taxpayer and make sure that their tax dollars are spent wisely, and at the same time make sure that we provide enough money to…

I want to give one example of why I am concerned about this amendment, since we really have not had a chance to totally understand its effect: The tragedy of Secretary Ron Brown flying in an OSA aircraft into Croatia, losing his life and…

the author of the amendment has suggested all the things that we can do under his amendment. But there are some things that we cannot do. We restrict the ability under this amendment to move into some types of technology that really look…

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…

Yes, the answer is exactly correct. The same response that I made to the gentleman from Virginia. Page 205 of our committee report, there is a page devoted to that issue, and let me add to this further. This is just one of the reasons that…

I have read the information the gentleman has provided to me about the need for the database center at the Harrisburg International Airport. We see merit with the gentleman's conclusions that such a database center is, in fact, necessary…

the $475 million that I just identified that we added for medical care for military and their families was not in the President's request, so it obviously would be at the top of the list of those items to cut if the cutting amendment would…

Mr. Chairman, as I explained during general debate, in order to conform this bill to the budget resolution that was adopted yesterday in the House, it was necessary to cut another $500 million, actually $508 million, over a half billion…

The total of $310 million for military personnel includes additional incremental costs for pay and allowances for active duty and reserve personnel deployed in support of the Bosnia operation. Such costs include basic allowance for…

let me take just a few minutes to discuss chapter 4 of title II, which is the defense supplemental to pay for the Bosnia deployment. As all of us are aware, many Members in this House disagreed with the President and the administration…

as I rise in support of this conference report, I want to say a special word about the gentleman from South Carolina, Chairman Floyd Spence. Chairman Spence and the gentleman from California, Mr. Dellums, and I came to the Congress…

I rise to mention briefly a situation that exists and to compliment the Committee on National Security for something they did about it. The cost of living adjustments for retired military come at a different time in the year than the cost…

I detect a breath of bipartisanship as we approach a vote on this important piece of legislation, not a heavy breeze, or not a big wind, but at least a breath of bipartisanship, and that is what it is going to take to get our job done. We…

In fact, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the President himself said that he signed the defense appropriations bill. But a message from the White House on November 30 indicates that the President did not sign the defense…

Mr. Speaker, we bring back a good conference report today. It is a bipartisan conference report providing for the national defense of our national readiness today, midterm and longterm. The total of the bill is $243.3 billion. That is $1.7…

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…

I would have no problem with some assurance there. I would like to point out, these laws dealing with this subject really are legislation and not appropriations. The gentlewoman is on the authorizing committee. That might have been the…

The difference is the nonprofits that we are talking about do not have all of this law that relate to them, where the Defense Department does, and I just need to check and make sure that we have something that is not going to be flying up…

However, I believe that we should look back in history when we consider whether to continue production of the B-2. Let me first go back 3 months ago when Capt. Scott O'Grady was shot down in a mission over Bosnia. As we remember, our whole…

I would say that we have examined this amendment and discussed it with the gentleman and believe that it does promote competition and think it is a positive addition to this bill and we accept the amendment.

Mr. DeLAY. Mr. Chairman, we have kept our promises to the American people. We have made the hard cuts in spending, while we are maintaining a strong defense for our Nation. Keeping our Nation strong means having a vision into the future…

I have a good friend back home in my district, his name is Bob Schultz. He went ashore with the Marine Corps, the 2d Marine Division, in Tarawa more than 50 years ago. As we have talked about that many, many times, he keeps coming back to…

Mr. Chairman, if there is anything that the cities or the counties or the States cannot do that must be done by the Federal Government it is to protect the security of this Nation. We are talking about a national defense. We are talking…

This bill appropriates $2.2 billion less than this House authorized on the defense authorization bill earlier this summer, $2.2 billion less.

Each amount appropriated or otherwise made available by this act is hereby reduced by 3 percent. That means you go through the bill, pick out the items that are not mandatory, that are not entitlements, and they will be reduced by 3…