[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 138 (Thursday, September 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8604]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


             OPPOSITION TO THE DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL

  (Mr. SANDERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the Defense 
appropriations bill, especially given the priorities currently being 
established in Congress.
  Now that the cold war is over, why do we continue to spend $100 
billion a year to defend Europe and Asia against a nonexistent enemy, 
while at the same time this Congress proposes major cutbacks in 
Medicare and Medicaid?
  Why are we continuing to fund the absurd star wars program, but make 
disastrous cuts in student loans and education, the future of America?
  Why are we expanding the B-2 program at over $1 billion a plane, when 
the Pentagon has not even asked for any more planes, but we are cutting 
back on school nutrition programs and child care?
  Why are we not cutting the CIA and the other intelligence programs 
now that the Soviet Union does not exist, but instead are cutting back 
on Head Start?

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