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Barney Frank: “Let me say to the gentleman, the basic point I want to make is it seems to me very much a partial picture to talk about…”

On the recordMay 7, 1998
Let me say to the gentleman, the basic point I want to make is it seems to me very much a partial picture to talk about the reduction in the defense spending without talking about the concomitant reduction in the need for defense spending. I have to say that if you look at the Soviet Union today, not just in conventional, but you have got the defection of the nuclear parts that were in Ukraine and Belarus, the Soviet Union today is far less than two-thirds as threatening to us as it was in 1985. There has been, I believe, a diminution in the external threat we faced greater than the diminution in the defense budget.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the relationship between defense spending and the perceived threat from the Soviet Union.

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