Andrew P. Hunter: “I might just say with respect to the dollars that are spent on national security, I saw an interesting fact when looking…”

“I might just say with respect to the dollars that are spent on national security, I saw an interesting fact when looking over the defense budgets that this House and the other body and the President have passed over the last 10 years or so. If you take President Clinton's defense plan and look at the 1998 projection and you compare that to the 1988 defense budget, the annual budget, and you compare them in real dollars; that is, in 1987 hard dollars, so you discount inflation, the national defense budget of this country, the annual budget in 1998 will be $100 billion less than the budget was in 1988. So it is clear that this President has taken most of the budget cuts from national security.”