[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 30 (Wednesday, February 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1766]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               THE HAWKS ARE BACK IN TOWN: FRUGAL, CHEAP

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, yesterday we passed the final piece of the 
crime package dealing with personal safety, being personal safety, 
personal security. Today we are going to begin with national security.
  Mr. Speaker, tell me what do you think of when you think of the 
1970's? Do you think of disco, Watergate, inflation, sky-high interest 
rates, leisure suits? And, of course, a hollow military? It was not a 
good time in American history.
  But, Mr. Speaker, the hawks are back in town; the hawks are back in 
town, having been elected by the American people in November. There is 
something we have to remember about this particular group of hawks: it 
is not just hawks but frugal hawks, cheapskate hawks, tight-with-a-buck 
hawks.
  We are going to provide a very, very strong national security 
package, but we are going to do it under the microscope of fiscal 
responsibility. You can absolutely count on it.
  When it comes to the national leadership, one of the things we 
absolutely know is that in the Congress, in the White House, in this 
country, just like the rest of the Nation, nature abhors a vacuum. So 
when we do not have leadership at the top, we have to find it 
somewhere. That is what this bill is all about.


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