On the recordFebruary 9, 1994
if you took Japan, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, Luxembourg, Iceland, the total of all those countries' defense spending is $230 billion. We are looking at, for fiscal year 1995 in the United States, $263 billion. I think it has to be clearly seen in this statistic that we are carrying a global burden, a global leadership. I am not suggesting we bury our head in the sand and resort to isolationism. But can we not legitimately say in effect more of our Western allies, more of the NATO countries, more of the world, should carry whatever military requirements we have for stabilizing the world? ... What I am suggesting in this amendment is that we rescind, in this fiscal year 1994 budget, $18.62 billion.
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