[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 30 (Wednesday, February 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1768]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                H.R. 7--ATTACK ON OUR NATIONAL SECURITY

  (Ms. ESHOO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge my colleagues to oppose H.R. 
7.
  This bill zeros out money to improve the technology on proven weapon 
systems that help save our soldiers' lives and instead wastes it on 
star wars.
  This bill kills the Technology Reinvestment Project and knocks the 
legs out from under companies which have already started significant 
technology development projects.
  For example, Silicon Video Corp. in California is working on flat 
panel display technology so in times of war we will not be reliant on 
other countries for this critical technology.
  Now H.R. 7 abandons funding for this key technology which is 
essential to every one of our weapons systems, and instead reallocates 
the money to star wars.
  The defense application of flat panel displays is not debatable. The 
cuts in H.R. 7 dangerously reduce our armed services' technological 
edge over potential enemies, all in the name of star wars.
  We need budget priorities based on national security needs, not 
political manifestos; for our soldiers' safety, not politicians' 
reelection campaigns.
  I urge members to oppose H.R. 7.
  It is wrong-minded, and it attacks our national security.

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