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W. Weldon: “I want to focus on a lesser publicized issue that I think presents for us a scandal that is going to last well into the…”

On the recordOctober 6, 1998
I want to focus on a lesser publicized issue that I think presents for us a scandal that is going to last well into the next century. That scandal involves the underfunding of our national military and our national security apparatus. Today, Speaker Gingrich, along with the leadership of the defense committees in the House, held a press conference and signed the legislation that we are now sending up to the President to both authorize and appropriate our defense funds for the next fiscal year. The problem, Mr. Speaker, is that this legislation was very tightly controlled by the budget numbers that we were given and does not really reflect the threats that we see emerging around the world and the commitments that we are involving our troops in around the world.
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W. Weldon
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Discussing the underfunding of national military and security during a speech on defense funding.

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