[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8294]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           PRESIDENT HAS CREATED NATIONAL SECURITY EMERGENCY

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, I call my colleagues' attention to this 
graph I have here. It shows that the President has neglected the 
defense budget for the past 6 years, while stretching our troops around 
the world. There has been laxity, inattention, and actual negligence in 
guarding our most valuable nuclear secrets.
  I believe the President has created a national security emergency. 
There have been truly massive cuts in the defense budget in the area of 
weapons procurement, all this while using American troops in the role 
of social workers on humanitarian missions around the world. It is a 
recipe designed to leave our proud military in a state of emergency, 
unable to match resources with demands.
  American servicemen deserve better. Those who serve our Nation should 
not be put in harm's way when our national security interests are not 
at stake, and they should be provided with the resources necessary to 
carry out our mission in a dangerous world.
  The war in Kosovo has exposed for all the world to see our national 
security emergency.

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