Barney Frank said "let me say the gentleman noted that the defense budget had gone up to 385, as I understand it, which I thought was too high then, but he said we have cut it $100 billion. That is what; about a 30-percent cut? I would ask the gentleman from Washington this: Given the collapse of the Soviet Union and the switch of sides of so many leading nations in the Warsaw Pact to where they are now about to join NATO, would he say there has been at least a 30 percent reduction in the physical threat faced by the United States since 1985?" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJuly 29, 1997

let me say the gentleman noted that the defense budget had gone up to 385, as I understand it, which I thought was too high then, but he said we have cut it $100 billion. That is what; about a 30-percent cut? I would ask the gentleman from Washington this: Given the collapse of the Soviet Union and the switch of sides of so many leading nations in the Warsaw Pact to where they are now about to join NATO, would he say there has been at least a 30 percent reduction in the physical threat faced by the United States since 1985?

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Barney Frank

Democratic · Massachusetts

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing defense budget cuts and changes in global threats during a House debate.

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