Today, in particular, the American people have been treated to inexcusable and seemingly unending abuses of the Defense procurement system. It will take hardnosed determined and sustained action to clean the system out. Credibility must be restored to the Defense Department for the good of our Nation.
Debating the nomination of John Tower as Secretary of Defense.
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I cannot support this item unless there are some limitations on it, unless Congress can exercise its power over the purse, as the Constitution provides.
Why should Congress not have some limitations on this? It is the taxpayers' money.
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