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Impatient with the organizational snarl, some Congressmen want to establish the Special Forces as an entirely separate service. Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine is pushing a plan that would carve out all of the Special Forces missions performed by the military and put them under a new civilian-run agency, reporting to the Secretary of Defense, that would control and deploy the units...
Because of its shape and magic electronic gadgetry, the proposed Stealth bomber is supposed to be all but invisible to enemy radar. Fittingly enough, the supersecret project has been funded with stealth as well: its budget is all but invisible even to the Congressmen who must approve military funding. In Pentagon parlance, the bomber is one of the rapidly growing number of "black" programs. Because the programs are classified at levels above top secret, only a few select congressional committee members and a handful of staffers are allowed to analyze the numbers or even know the purpose of such budget...
While most Congressmen acknowledge this need, some are trying to bring black programs under closer scrutiny. Last week a House Armed Services panel met twice to grill Defense officials on the management of the clandestine projects. One reason for the concern is the astounding growth of the programs during the Reagan Administration. According to an analysis of the Pentagon budget by the National Journal, black budgets for researching, developing and procuring secret weapons increased from a mere $892 million in 1981 to $8.6 billion for the up-coming fiscal year. Legislators are concerned that major strategic and budgetary decisions...
...annual deficit targets until the goal of a balanced budget is reached in fiscal 1991; failure by Congress and the President to meet those tar gets means that the Comptroller, who heads the General Accounting Office, must calculate and order the necessary cuts under a specified formula. The twelve Congressmen, all of whom voted against the bill, argued that this gave to the Comptroller broad powers of the purse that the Constitution does not permit Congress to relinquish...
...associations. A 1997 trip to Russia, during which DeLay played golf and met with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, was recently discovered to have been indirectly underwritten by a company that also financed a $440,000 lobbying campaign in support of the Russian government. House ethics rules bar congressmen from receiving travel reimbursement from lobbyists. Similarly shady trips to South Korea and England have attracted further attention. In addition, reports sprang up earlier this month that DeLay’s wife and daughter received more than $500,000 from the congressman’s political action committee, an unusually large...