Jim Inhofe: “Anyway, during that time, during the Obama administration, during those 5 years, he reduced the funding for the military…”

“Anyway, during that time, during the Obama administration, during those 5 years, he reduced the funding for the military by 25 percent. Now, this has not happened, in my memory. It hasn't happened since World War II that we have gone through a 5-year period of doing that. And the tragedy is that during that same time, China was increasing theirs by 83 percent. Stop and think about that--83 percent--when you realize that we were reducing our expenditures by 25 percent while they are increasing theirs by 83 percent. Now, that is serious enough, and that is something that is very much a concern to many of us. So we know that they were increasing, we were decreasing, and, as a result, things happened. There are some things that they did-- hypersonics, for example. That is one of the most recent exercises that is out there. They are actually, today, as we speak--they are ahead of us. Both China and Russia are ahead of the United States of America in hypersonics and that type of technology that is out there. This President came along--and I know there is a lot of controversy about this bill. I know that the President wanted to have something in there that was having to do with language that had nothing to do with the military. I agree wholeheartedly with him, but you can't. You have got to have a defense authorization bill. Our kids in the field demand it.…”