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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012

Floor Speech

Date: May 26, 2011
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Defense

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Mr. ELLISON. I couldn't help but note my colleague from Minnesota's last comment. He seems to imply that because there have been wars since 1985 that somehow that is an indictment of the U.S. Institute of Peace. That's absurd and ridiculous.

But it always seems that we can find more money for defense spending but not for peace. It's a question of priorities.

Last night I was here trying to argue that when the GAO and the Subcommittee on Sea Power says that we don't need to spend $150 million on the LHA-7, friends on the other side of the aisle leaped to their feet and declared, ``We've got to have this.'' Well, the GAO doesn't think so.

But yet we're trying to zero out the U.S. Institute of Peace which can keep us out of conflict and is on the ground in Baghdad, Kosovo, Haiti, all kinds of places, trying to keep people safe and alive.

So faulty logic, poor argumentation won't justify this bad amendment. I urge a ``no'' vote.

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