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...every weapon the generals and admirals put on their wish lists, without any overall strategic design or much attempt to weed out those systems that prove ineffective or excessively costly. In a study submitted to Republican congressional leaders last week, a group of G.O.P. lawmakers led by Senators Charles Grassley of Iowa and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas contended in effect that much of the roughly $1 trillion spent on defense in the past four years had disappeared into what Grassley called a "bottomless pit" of Pentagon waste...
...example, said Grassley and Kassebaum, the Reagan Administration had provided 76% more money for the purchase of aircraft and 48% more for production of warships than the Carter Administration had in its four years --yet wound up putting 12% fewer warplanes and 17% fewer major fighting ships into service than the previous Administration had. One reason: to get some weapons systems built, "we are paying up to $700 per standard hour for work normally done in the private sector for between $40 and $60." The Pentagon's response: the weapons it is buying are more advanced, technically sophisticated and effective...
...airplanes, sunk more ships and immobilized more soldiers than all our enemies in history put together," the witness told the crowded Senate hearing room last week. Pentagon Whistle Blower A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a management systems deputy for the Air Force, had been called to testify before Iowa Senator Charles Grassley's Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure. Fitzgerald, fired in 1970 after he disclosed huge cost overruns on the Lockheed C-5A military transport, was restored to his original Pentagon job in 1982 under court order. He complained to the Senate panel that he has been denied access...
...this view prevails, the long-term effect of the court's decision, ironically, might be to encourage Congress to seek even more power than it wielded before, by passing hundreds or thousands of narrow, specific prescriptions on presidential prerogatives. "The court's decision," said G.O.P. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, "has catapulted Congress into years of complex, cumbersome legislative activity to repossess our original powers." Georgia Democrat Elliott Levitas, who for years has been the House's leading proponent of the legislative veto, was more vivid. "We've got a real governmental train wreck...
When the vote was held Thursday afternoon, the Reagan compromise on taxes was rejected, 11 to 6. Chiles offered the Democratic revenue-raising figures, and they were approved, 13 to 4. Only three Republicans (Armstrong, Indiana's Dan Quayle and Iowa's Charles Grassley) and Democrat Fritz Hollings, who favors a freeze on most federal spending, voted against the package. Domenici claimed that he had cut a deal with Chiles only to move the issue to the Senate floor. There he intends to fight against the tax increases that his own committee had just approved. Despite this rationale...