[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 86 (Thursday, June 30, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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             DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1995

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                               speech of

                          HON. ELIZABETH FURSE

                               of oregon

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 29, 1994

       The House in Committee of the Whole House on the State of 
     the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 4650) making 
     appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal 
     year ending September 30, 1995.

  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Chairman, it is important that we maintain continuity 
in our funding decisions. My amendment, adopted last night during 
consideration of the fiscal 1995 defense appropriations bill, was a 
commonsense move that needed to be made.
  This bill made reductions to many specific programs, but it did not 
specifically reduce management support, DOD's overhead costs of 
performing R&D missions. It doesn't make sense to pay the same amount 
for management support when there's less to manage.
  The bill reduced the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation 
budget from its requested level by $1.7 billion, or about 5 percent. 
Seven hundred million dollars of the reduction transfers defense 
conversion into another section of the bill, so the real reduction to 
R,D,T&E is $1 billion, or about 3 percent. My amendment made a $30 
million reduction in management support.
  This not only saves the taxpayers $30 million, it also will force the 
military services to share each other's R&D infrastructure and increase 
efficiency by avoiding duplication.

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