Andrew P. Hunter

National defense is in crisis. We are going to be 18,000 sailors short this year in the U.S. Navy. We are going to be 700 pilots short in the Air Force. We are short on basic ammunition in the Army and the Marine Corps. Our equipment is…

Actually the Department of Defense is about 50 percent people. That means that not only the soldiers, the sailors, the airmen, the marines who serve this country, but also the many people who back them up. That means people who repair…

That means out of 10 aircraft that are on the line when you call for them to do their mission operation to carry out their mission, only about 60 percent, a little over 60 percent of those aircraft are capable of doing it, and that is…

I want to thank him and all the others who worked for a strong national defense in this emergency supplemental. It is very, very critical. I would simply ask him to talk a little bit about the fact that the North Koreans now have an ICBM…

I have a graph here that shows the G7, that is the big nations of the world, the big western democracies and their net exports to Mexico before and after NAFTA. That includes the United States. We call this chart ``Find the dummies,''…

The first question in the cartoon was, which country's missile technology has the Clinton administration most improved? And the second part of the cartoon was, Communist China's. [...] It is not in our interest for the Long March missile…

Maybe they think, I would say to my colleague, maybe the Clinton administration thinks that they can talk those missiles down with the Japanese.

Most of the Navy Theater Wide funding to date has gone to support the new interceptor required to destroy incoming ballistic missiles. Additional funding for radar development is needed to assure that the system is capable of detecting and…

In essence, this date is direction to the Navy to get started now on a radar development program in a way that best supports the Navy Theater Wide.

I agree with the gentleman very strongly that, when we have a State-sponsored terrorism where assets and resources are funneled to terrorists to kill people around the world, in many cases Americans, it only makes sense to deter that type…

This does not affect or change the ability of the government to bundle contracts. But we want the GAO to look at that also, the idea of loading up or bundling contracts.

This just says if you are stationed around the world and you may have been renting your home out for two of the last five years because of the extraordinary demands on uniformed service people, you can designate that home as your place of…

Oversight or the primary review of the satellite transfers has now been taken away from the Department of Defense, who look at it from a national security standpoint, and given to the Department of Commerce, which arguably does not have…

This has been a thankless year for this committee, because we have been forced to preside over the decline of America's defenses, a very dramatic decline. Anyone who looks at this chart and looks at the various functions, mandatory outlays…

Our motto is that we are going to keep working and we are going to try to build that budget back up to where it should be so that we do a service rather than a disservice to the folks in uniform.

The forest almost gets lost for the trees. Seven hundred forty-eight illegal votes were found by clear and convincing evidence. Now I, like a number of other Members, sat down and got debriefed by the committee and that was my question…

Some Members of the media have accused Bob of believing in ethnic differences and in oppressing ethnic groups who want to register and vote. So here is a guy who went to Mississippi when it was not very popular to go to Mississippi, to…

It is the understanding I have, and I have asked some of our experts on this, the missiles that China is evolving right now outstrip the capability of PAC-2 and PAC-3.

Let me just say to my friend who just spoke, 60 percent of the votes that were counted that were registered by one organization had been found to be fraudulent by the Secretary of State. We have not got all the votes. There is not a single…

What I see in his bill is essentially what I offered, I think, with respect to Japan back in 1982, which is a two-way street bill, that we let the other side control the level of tariffs, and if they want to raise the wall, they raise it…

I am not going to yield until I am able to finish my sentence. That, I think, offers no value to this deliberative body, because there is absolutely no time given on the other side, and it gives the impression to the people out in the…

I think that particularly the homeowners' or home sellers' exclusion from taxation... has come in the nick of time. They can use that money for their kids' education and, incidentally, for buying houses for their children.

I listened to this debate. I had to rise because I am familiar with a lot of the facts with respect to the investigation as to illegal voters voting in the Sanchez-Dornan race, and this is not about the gentlewoman from California [Ms…

The standoff weapons, Mr. Chairman, are extremely expensive. They are over $1 million apiece. That is our air launch cruise missiles. In fact, closer to a million and a half apiece. That is compared to $23,000 for the short-range weapons…

I too look forward to a robust debate on the B-2 bomber, and I think it is our duty to force as many colleagues as we can to listen to us one more time on that issue. I want to assure my colleague that it is my desire to have a robust…