Major Owens: “today we will consider the resolution for the 1995 budget. All advanced briefings indicate that the House Budget…”

“today we will consider the resolution for the 1995 budget. All advanced briefings indicate that the House Budget Committee has engaged in a rubber-stamping exercise that adds very little insight and vision to the administration's monstrous presentation. When we vote on this flawed resolution there will be none of the drama of last year's session. This year the Democrats have surrendered in advance. A golden opportunity to begin redirecting the Nation's resources has been tossed away. Is the Republican Party still in control of the Office of Management and Budget? The worms at OMB devoured more than 100 small programs and drastically cut 300 more. The total abandonment of jobless inner-city youth was begun with the transfer out of $60 million into programs to retain adults who have had the good fortune to have jobs for the last 12 years, but are losing their Defense-related employment now. But the most scandalous act of all in this budget-making process has been the House Committee's acquiescence to the administration's position that there will be 'no further cuts in Defense'. The military industrial complex reigns supreme 'uber alles.' The no-cuts-in-Defense doctrine represents a monumental blunder, a gigantic waste of resources that should be utilized to redirect our economy.”