[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 177 (Thursday, December 8, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H7402]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              PENTAGON'S WASTEFUL BACK OFFICE BUREAUCRACY

  (Mr. SCHRADER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCHRADER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call upon this body to 
protect our national security by ensuring that the billions we spend 
through the Pentagon are, in fact, well spent.
  We are currently embarking on enacting a CR that is inadequate for 
education, health care, and economic and job development. It contains a 
bloated Defense Department with even more money, despite documentation 
of $125 billion in waste and inefficiencies that their own 
investigation showed.
  This does not relate to our servicemen and -women who do a great job 
for our country protecting freedom around the world. This is money that 
we could use to fund all the war spending and drive down the costs of 
the Pentagon and Department of Defense almost 20 percent without 
affecting existing programs.
  I think we need to declassify the Department of Defense study and use 
that money for the taxpayers to drive down our debt and deficit and 
make this country great again.

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