On the recordJune 22, 1998
Mr. Chairman, it is a privilege for me to recommend this military construction bill to the Congress for adoption. It is a very stringent bill. It does not meet the needs, nor the requirements of military construction, but it is basically all that we have to work with, the numbers were given to us. Actually, the administration presented a budget request that is considerably lower than last year's appropriated level, about $1.4 billion dollars lower. That is a 15 percent cut from last year's appropriated level. We have had to add to that level, to the President's request, about $450 million or we would have never been able to have met even the most dire military construction needs. Mr. Chairman, we do not see any controversy on this bill. We feel that it is a very good bipartisan bill. The minority and the majority have worked very closely on it in crafting the bill.
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