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John Conyers: “I still have problems with this two-war strategy that now fuels a $250 billion military piece. I think that is a little…”

On the recordSeptember 25, 1997
I still have problems with this two-war strategy that now fuels a $250 billion military piece. I think that is a little too much. The Seawolf submarine, the nuclear submarine, when I was the chairman, we were holding hearings on the Seawolf submarine. Star Wars has been reconfigured at least a half a dozen times. They throw it out, reinvent it, and come up with some more stuff. There are too many F-22s. In other words, there is way too much, $247 billion worth, in this kind of global situation that we find ourselves in. Madam Speaker, it is too much dough. We have got to cut it down. We have got to reduce it.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

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Discussing military spending and strategy during a speech on the House floor.

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