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...Senate this week considers Reagan's latest defense appropriations bill, this one for $180.2 billion, grumblings can be heard from members who are troubled by the massive buildup. Defense specialists like Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) have been vocal, through largely unheeded, advocates of a more discriminating approach to defense spending. We hope these misgivings about unbridled military spending will lead Congress to examine the Pentagon's requests with an eye toward getting rid of systems that are too costly, unreliable, or utterly useless. Many of the Pentagon's boondoggles are listed in April's Washington Monthly magazine, which describes...
...reform without all the politicking which comes naturally to such a review. But political considerations have inevitably snuck into the proceedings. Kennedy and former Vice President Walter F. Mondale were each allowed two members on the 69-member commission. Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) has a personal aide on the advisory committee, and Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) and Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) are both on the mailing list...
...aides to Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.), Sen. Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) and Elizabeth H. Dole, assistant to the president for public liason, all confirmed that a K-School official had inquired about the availability of each on June...
Sens. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) and Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz), both members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, recently issued a report on the June 1980 alerts. Their report emphasized that it took only a few minutes to discover that there was no real attack, and that many steps must be taken before a missile can actually be launched. However, during the June 3 false alert the Pacific Command took off after the Commander of NORAD had confirmed that there was no threat. In the words of the report, "There seemed to be an air of confusion...
More moderate Democrats managed to hold off the aggressive Republican assault especially in the Midwest. Alan J. Dixon, for example, defeated David O'Neal for the seat of Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-Ill.), while incumbent Sens. Thomas Eagleton (D-Mo.) and John Glenn (D-Oh.) overcame Republican challengers. Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) pulled out a last-minute victory over Mary Estill Buchanan...