[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 14 (Friday, February 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 11, 1994]
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                          OUR HOLLOW MILITARY

  (Mr. HUNTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, President Clinton is leading this Nation 
toward the hollow military of the 1970's. He is making two major 
mistakes, as manifest in his recent budget proposal, with respect to 
national defense.
  First, he is not giving us the equipment and the numbers of personnel 
that we need to be able to fight two major conflicts simultaneously. 
That has always been our standards. That has always been our margin of 
safety.
  Second, he is not giving us enough money to pay for the weapons 
systems, the equipment and the personnel who are left after he makes 
his massive cuts.
  There are big mismatches between the number of dollars that he is 
allocating and the requirement and the requirement for funding that we 
have.
  Mr. Speaker, in the coming weeks a number of us on both the 
Republican and Democrat side will attempt to restore a reasonable 
amount of funding to the defense function, which is so vital to 
American interests. We hope that President Clinton will cooperate.

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