On the recordFebruary 2, 1995
The defense budget of this country has already become the cash cow. In last year's defense bill, the total amount of unauthorized appropriations was $4.7 billion; $2 billion of that $4.7 billion was in the subcommittee that I now chair, the Subcommittee on Research and Development. I asked the staff to provide me a listing of those projects that were included as unauthorized appropriations, and I have them here. There are more than two pages. There are a whole series of pages. And, in fact, most of the projects are under $50 million, and almost all of the projects are under $200 million. We are in agreement that those projects that are taking dollars away from the defense of this country should be subject to a Presidential line-item veto, which, if we feel strongly enough about, we can keep in the budget. Many of these programs would not withstand that test. But we also agree that there needs to be some limit.
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