JOHN M. McHUGH: “I don't think we can afford it. I don't think we can--hell, we're cutting 100,000 more right now.”

The most important piece of legislation Congress should enact is H.R. 22, introduced by Representatives John McHugh and Danny Davis.

There has been some discussion that our examination and attempt to establish what we call MOS-specific physical requirements is intended to lower standards to facilitate bringing women into certain jobs, and that is simply not the case.

Fiscal restraint for defense and fiscal largesse for everything else.

Ladies and gentlemen, our Army, your Army faces a dark and dangerous future unless this Congress acts now to end these ill-conceived and inflexible budget cuts.