Obey Security Votes #5

Just one month after voting to cut defense spending by $20 billion over 5 years, Dave voted for an amendment to reduce by 5% the total amount authorized for the Department of Defense, Military Construction, and the Department of Energy National Security programs - that would have been a $13.5 billion ONE YEAR CUT FOR OUR TROOPS. (Roll Call Vote 214, June 19, 1997)

The only comfort we can take is that Dave Obey's plan to slash our defense/security capabilities kept getting defeated on a bi-partisan basis.