[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 22 (Thursday, March 3, 1994)]
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                    ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, in his State of the Union Address, Clinton 
told us that as long as he is President, the military will be the best 
equipped, best trained, and best prepared fighting force on the face of 
the Earth. No more cuts, he stood right there and said.
  But actions speak louder than words. Just a few short weeks have 
passed, and yesterday the Secretary of the Army said what Clinton 
really meant to say was no more cuts beyond what he had already planned 
to cut.
  So much for the Clinton credibility. Defense is back on the chopping 
block, this time to cut personnel by 181,000. The Army, of course, 
takes the biggest hit.
  For a decade now the Defense Department has been the only Federal 
agency to see its budget cut. But look around you. We have got problems 
in Somalia, Communists with nuclear capability in Korea, and bloody 
violence in Bosnia. The cold war may be over, but we do not have the 
capability, given the numbers we are looking at now, to respond 
adequately to many of these challenges.
  Ronald Reagan believed in peace through strength. According to 
Solzhenitsyn, who is going back to Russia, he said that Ronald Reagan, 
with that belief, brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union and 
the Berlin Wall.
  Mr. Clinton, do not tell us. Show us that you are committed to a 
military that will ensure the security of all Americans and our 
interests around the world.

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