The President vetoed the bill. One of the articulated reasons was that he did not like that inhibition on what he thought were his Commander-in-Chief powers.

He did have one vote and that was Douglas MacArthur. And, incidentally, I was trying to tell that story today, and our good friend Charles Bass looked up and said, ``I know. He is my uncle.'' So we do have among us the great nephew of…

The problem, my colleagues, is that we apparently have not convinced the Russians that the cold war is over. We see a continuing drive to modernize their strategic systems, which costs them billions and billions of dollars, to do other…

let me just reiterate the theme that the chairman just elaborated on is, I think, a very important one for all of the Members to understand, and that is that this should not be, this bill should not be, a competition between whether or not…

Every single reduction in strategic systems that the gentleman from California spoke of and the gentleman from Indiana spoke of are taking place; all those reductions are taking place because we signed START I. The Russians signed START I…

My colleagues, the question is what do we get for what we give? It is $556,000 per student, but we get on the average a 18-year doc for the military. It is $125,000 here if we do strictly scholarships, but we only get about 6 years of…

I want to tell her, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Procurement, what my jurisdiction includes and what we are adding money for. I want to go through the list, but the most basic one, the one that I charged our staff with…

let me start off by giving also my congratulations to our chairman, the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Spence] who has done a superb job of working on this defense bill, walking us through the hearings that we had to have in rapid fire…

I acknowledge that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has recommended that the modernization of the semiactive laser Hellfire inventory be continued, and I support the Army's proposed procurement to achieve that goal. The gentleman from…

I am telling my friend the story gets worse. We are $30 million short on basic bullets, that is M-16 ammo for the riflemen. Total, we are about $365 million short on ammunition, if we count the mortar rounds we are short, the howitzer…

I have here in my hands a Marine ammo pouch. This is the type of a pouch that the Marine Corps infantryman uses to put his M-16 rounds of 5.56 millimeter rounds in for combat operations. This empty Marine ammo pouch represents yet another…

a couple of days ago I announced, along with the chairman of the Committee on National Security, that we were going to address a shortfall in funding under the Clinton administration budget that seriously impeded the capability of our…

Yesterday I convened a panel of the procurement subcommittee of the Committee on National Security to investigate the series of tragic mishaps with respect to F-14 crashed and Aviate B Harrier Marine Corps fighter aircraft crashes that…

In that case, I feel better. But let me just thank him, thank Bob Dornan, for all the great work that he has done on behalf of unborn children and the fact that you are carrying this fight, as you have carried it for many, many years on…

Mr. Chairman, I can understand now why the amendment was offered, because there are a number of mistakes with respect to the facts. The gentleman mentioned that Chief Reyes, Silvester Reyes, who is by far the most famous Border Patrol…

We have put together a package here, and I think we should pass this rule and pass this bill, that brings some degree of order to illegal immigration and to legal immigration. The illegal immigration we deal with by adding Border Patrol…

Presidents Bush and Reagan brought down the Berlin Wall with a defense policy that was called peace through strength. They built up our military, rebuilt declining forces, and they forced the Soviet Union to the bargaining table, and they…

The B-52 is still our Nation's most capable and only dual-role bomber and provides substantial conventional firepower and a strong nuclear deterrent. The committee believes that maintaining the current inventory of 94 B-52's is a…

Mr. Speaker, the fact that we were able to take this bill after it had been vetoed by the President and run it back through a limited conference and get it back on the floor and, hopefully, get it back to the President's desk for…

Let me just say in a couple of areas that the gentleman from Colorado [Mr. Hefley] is right and the gentlewoman from Colorado [Mrs. Schroeder] is right. We have the pay raise, which is absolutely important to our people. We have the…

I want to go back to the missile defense portion of this thing a little bit. Let me make it clear that when the negotiations were held with the chairman, the ranking member, a number of leaders from the other body, and the President's…

Let me tell my colleagues, this is a basic difference between the President of the United States and the Republican majority in the House, the full House, and the American people whom they represent, because we do want to have a defense…

to follow my friend, it is true that this is the first President who sent our jobs to Mexico, our troops to Bosnia, and our balanced budget to the White House trash can. He has done something else, Mr. Speaker, and that is to veto the…

If we did not compromise, why did we take out the multiple-site language to accommodate the President?

This year in the Department of Defense we are going to be spending about $40 billion for procurement of weapons systems. That is for aircraft, for ships, for submarines, and for all that equipment that our Armed Forces use, so we spend…