[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]


                      NATIONAL SECURITY COMMISSION

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, as Republicans rush to enact the 
Contract With America, they brag about cutting spending, about 
eliminating agencies, about reducing the size of Government.
  But wait a minute; go ahead and listen to what they say, but more 
importantly watch what they do. As the Republicans call for budget 
cuts, look at what they have done in H.R. 7. They have written a bill 
with billions and billions of dollars in new defense spending, new 
weapons systems. And then they snuck a new little something into the 
bill, H.R. 7: The Republican Contract With America mandates Congress to 
spend $1.5 million on a new commission, a task force, a committee, a 
blue-ribbon panel, another layer of bureaucracy. Can it be that the 
Republicans have discovered that one of the problems in this country is 
a shortage of agencies and commissions and task forces and layers of 
bureaucracy? Time out for common sense. Do we really need a new 
commission to study military needs?
  This new $1.5 million commission is redundant, it is superfluous, it 
is another layer of bureaucracy. Mr. Speaker, it is the Full Employment 
Act for Unemployed Defense Consultants. I urge Members later today to 
support the Menendez amendment.

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