[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5784 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5784

 To reduce deficits and government spending through the elimination of 
                wasteful defense subsidies and programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 20, 2010

 Mr. Welch (for himself and Mr. Peters) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To reduce deficits and government spending through the elimination of 
                wasteful defense subsidies and programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Reduce and End our Deficits Using 
Commonsense Eliminations in the Defense Programs Act''.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF CERTAIN MAJOR WEAPON SYSTEMS.

    (a) C-17 Aircraft.--None of the funds authorized to be appropriated 
or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2011 or any fiscal year 
thereafter for aircraft procurement, Air Force, may be obligated or 
expended for the procurement of C-17 aircraft.
    (b) EP-X Aircraft.--None of the funds authorized to be appropriated 
or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2011 or any fiscal year 
thereafter for aircraft procurement, Navy, or research, development, 
test, and evaluation, Navy, may be obligated or expended for the 
procurement or the research, development, test, or evaluation of EP-X 
aircraft.
    (c) CG(X) Vessel.--None of the funds authorized to be appropriated 
or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2011 or any fiscal year 
thereafter for shipbuilding and conversion, Navy, or research, 
development, test, and evaluation, Navy, may be obligated or expended 
for the procurement or the research, development, test, or evaluation 
of CG(X) vessels.

SEC. 3. CONSOLIDATION OF ADMINISTRATION OF DEFENSE EXCHANGE STORES 
              SYSTEM.

    Section 2487 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Consolidation of Administration of Defense Exchange Stores 
System.--
            ``(1) Consolidation required.--Not later than January 1, 
        2012, the Secretary of Defense shall consolidate the Army and 
        Air Force Exchange Service, the Navy Exchange Command, and the 
        Marine Corps exchange system into a single organization for the 
        administration of the defense exchange stores system.
            ``(2) Prohibition on use of appropriated funds.--Upon the 
        consolidation of the defense exchange stores system under 
        paragraph (1), appropriated funds may not be used to support 
        the operation of exchange stores.''.
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