Jim Inhofe: “The big issue here is, we need to use the money that is used on excess capacity to be spent on such things as…”

“The big issue here is, we need to use the money that is used on excess capacity to be spent on such things as modernization, quality of life, on readiness, on force strength. These are the things that we need to be talking about. So, yes, the whole thing on privatization in place, it was anticipated someone might bring it up. So the GAO in their report, when they came to the conclusion that if you privatize that excess capacity in place in Sacramento and in San Antonio, it is going to cost the taxpayers, and I say cost the defense system, because that is what it is going to come out of--$468 million a year. Over the 5 years, they said that is $2.34 billion.”