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BG824: For Strategic Defense: A New Strategy For the New GlobalSituation

President Clinton's 1995 defense budget, which allocates $1.29 trillion for defense from 1995 through 1999, continues his Administration ,s systematic dismantling of the nation's defenses so painstakingly rebuilt by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s., In the Clinton plan, the Department of Defense will fall short of its funding re- quirements-as outlined in the Administration's own "Bottom-Up Review"-by nearly $ 100 billion. The Ad- ministration and Congress must stop looking f...

(Archived document, may contain errors) 8 January 15, 1993 HOW TO GET SPENDING UNDER CONTROL

Bush has endorsed abstinence education as an effective means ofreducing early sexual activity, providing a foundation for personalresponsibility, and enduring marital commitment. Washington isaware of the undesirable contents of "safe sex" education programsand the findings in the professional literature concerning theeffectiveness of genuine abstinence programs.

(Archived document, may contain errors) 6/15/84 56 .THE:. ROSE GARDEN BUDGET: A TAXING THORN IN REAGAN'S SIDE

Bill Clinton's record in the employment of American might around the world is indefensible. Over two dozen soldiers were killed in Somalia after the President and his advisers expanded the mission there from feeding the hungry to building a nation and disarming a tribal warlord's army. No conceivable national in- terest was advanced by this change of policy. In Haiti, the decision to send in military peacekeepers to en- force a United Nations cease-fire agreement was rescinded when a U...

The Senate can and should do a better job of improving educationalopportunities for America's children than is embodied in thelegislative vehicle approved by its Health, Education, Labor, andPensions Committee.

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(Archived document, may contain errors) March 30,1994 THIS IS DEFENSE? NON-DEFENSE SPENDING IN THE DEFENSE BUDGET

Delaying the drug benefit would save tens of billions of dollarsthat could be put to better use in Katrina recovery.