[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 413 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 413

To reduce the budget of the Department of Defense to the level provided 
  for fiscal year 2008 and to freeze the budget at such level through 
                           fiscal year 2016.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 25, 2011

  Mr. Stark introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To reduce the budget of the Department of Defense to the level provided 
  for fiscal year 2008 and to freeze the budget at such level through 
                           fiscal year 2016.

    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 ``Defense and Deficit Reduction Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Under H. Res. 38, the Chair of the Committee on the 
        Budget shall include in the Congressional Record an allocation 
        for the remainder of fiscal year 2011 that assumes nonsecurity 
        spending at fiscal year 2008 levels.
            (2) Reductions in defense spending should be included in 
        any effort to reduce Federal outlays and reduce the national 
        deficit.
            (3) In fiscal year 2010, defense spending comprised 58 
        percent of discretionary spending.
            (4) If defense spending continued at fiscal year 2010 
        levels for the next 5 years, it would total $3,600,000,000,000.
            (5) Reducing defense spending to fiscal year 2008 levels 
        would save approximately $182,000,000,000 over 5 years compared 
        to current levels.
            (6) In January 2011 Secretary of Defense Gates stated that 
        the Administration is seeking $78,000,000,000 in cuts to the 
        defense budget over the next five years on top of 
        $100,000,000,000 in efficiencies. This savings should be used 
        to decrease the deficit.
            (7) President Obama has pledged to begin drawing down 
        forces in Afghanistan in July 2011 with a goal of full 
        withdrawal in 2014. With a decrease in troops abroad, our 
        defense spending should decrease.
            (8) In a CBS News Poll from January 2011, over 50 percent 
        of Americans questioned would reduce defense spending to 
        decrease the Federal deficit.
            (9) The United States currently spends more on its military 
        and defense than the next 19 biggest spending nations combined.
            (10) Making reasonable reductions to the defense budget can 
        help to solve the Nation's long-term fiscal problems.

SEC. 3. REDUCTION AND FREEZE IN BUDGET OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

    (a) Reduction and Freeze.--The aggregate amount of funds 
appropriated or otherwise made available for military functions 
administered by the Department of Defense (other than the functions 
excluded by subsection (b)) for a fiscal year may not exceed--
            (1) in the case of fiscal year 2011, the aggregate amount 
        of funds appropriated or otherwise made available for military 
        functions administered by the Department of Defense (other than 
        the functions excluded by subsection (b)) for fiscal year 2008; 
        and
            (2) in the case of fiscal years 2012 through 2016, the 
        aggregate amount of funds appropriated or otherwise made 
        available for such functions for the previous fiscal year.
    (b) Exclusion of Military Personnel Pay and Benefits.--In 
determining the aggregate amount of funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available for military functions administered by the Department of 
Defense for fiscal year 2008 or any subsequent fiscal year for purposes 
of subsection (a), there shall be excluded all amounts appropriated or 
otherwise made available in general and supplemental appropriations 
Acts for--
            (1) military personnel, reserve personnel, and National 
        Guard personnel accounts of the Department of Defense, 
        generally title I of the annual Department of Defense 
        appropriations Act;
            (2) the Defense Health Program; and
            (3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities of the 
        Department of Defense, but only to the extent the amounts were 
        transferred to personnel accounts referred to in paragraph (1).
    (c) Use of Savings.--All funds saved by the implementation of this 
section shall be used for deficit reduction.
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