[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 139 (Thursday, September 29, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E]
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[Congressional Record: September 29, 1994]
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              CLINTON'S MILITARY: SITTING ON THE SIDELINES

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                        HON. GERALD B.H. SOLOMON

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 29, 1994

  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I have said it before and I will say it 
again, the Clinton administration is bringing this country to the brink 
of unilateral disarmament.
  The latest evidence of this is truly shocking, Mr. Speaker. I still 
can't believe this. Last week, the commander of the Naval Reserve 
ordered that all paid drills and annual training for reservists be 
cancelled for the rest of the fiscal year. So there we have it. While 
President Clinton is diverting our precious defense resources to an 
unimportant island in the Caribbean, the Naval Reserve has just folded 
up shop due to budgetary constraints.
  And listen to this: The Navy has also shut down three carrier air 
wings and six naval patrol squadrons for the rest of the year. I am 
just aghast, Mr. Speaker. We have a military that cannot operate and 
train for its real missions--defending America and her interests--
because the Clinton administration has got us involved in countless 
places that are of no strategic interest to the United States, while 
simultaneously gutting the Defense budget. Add to this the diversion of 
defense resources for things like aid to Russia, defense conversion, 
environmental cleanup etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, and it is just no 
wonder that this is happening.
  Mr. Speaker, it turns out that those of us who have been saying 
recently that we are going hollow were wrong. We are hollow.

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