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...think there are 25 votes in the UnitedStates Senate for the budget," said Sen. BillBradley (D-N.J.). And Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wis.),chairman of the House Armed Services Committee,called it "DBA--dead before arrival...
...Matic," declared Chris Matthews, a top aide to House Speaker Tip O'Neill, sardonically referring to the kitchen device once hawked on late-night TV ("It slices! It dices! It really, really works!"). On the floor, some prominent legislators were scornful. Gramm-Rudman, huffed Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, "is just about the dumbest piece of legislation I have seen in my 15 years on Capitol Hill." O'Neill himself warned, "Wait until you get to 1987 and have to cut $55 billion. Wait until you hear the American people." Certainly, the cries...
...with reporters last week, former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who chairs a presidential commission appointed to look into charges of Pentagon waste and mismanagement, concluded that "fundamental" changes should be made in the way the Pentagon buys weapons. On Capitol Hill, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin launched a series of hearings addressing the question, What have we got for a trillion dollars? Aspin's answer: not enough. In a 25-page report, the Wisconsin Democrat cited "skimpy improvements in the U.S. defense posture despite the huge increases in defense spending over recent years...
...Pentagon dismissed Aspin's charges as "uninformed and inaccurate," and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger continued to assert that there was nothing basically wrong with the military establishment. "If a thing ain't broke," he has repeatedly argued, "don't fix it." But the Pentagon chief appears on the defensive. In a speech billed as a major exposition of U.S. defense strategy, Weinberger last week offered little more than vague generalities that failed to quiet his critics...
...higher than the Consumer Price Index. But the GAO found that after the impact of contractor cost overruns is subtracted, prices for weapons and other Defense purchases prove to have "increased at about the same rate as prices of all goods in the U.S. economy." Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, claims the Pentagon used its $37 billion cushion to boost contractor profits and shuffle money to pinched programs. The inflation windfall, Aspin noted, exceeds the total $26.7 billion of cuts in weapons procurement made by Congress since...