He is the chairman of the House Armed Services committee. The first texan to ever have that role and a texan whose family goes back to ranching in the 13th district as far back as 1881. Probably wondered what he was doing in a rainy washington up here dealing with the federal budget when he could have been back home in the texas spring time but we are grateful for your service and to all of you for being here today. District as 1881. Probably wondered what he was doing in a rainy washington up here dealing with the federal budget when he could have been back home in the texas spring time but we are grateful for your service and to all of you for being here today. It is a momentous time in American Foreign policy and defense policy. Well get quickly to matters of the Defense Budget, defense spending and where the entire debate may go with tomorrows release the president s budget and Congress Really gearing up in its normal hearing season on these subjects but i thought just to get us en
And then an examination of the culture and lives of africanamericans during world war i. There was a real year of conflict when africanamericans came home. They were welcome in their home communities. In terms of reforming how americans thought about race relations, i dont think it did. It didnt have the impact that africanamericans hoped it would. The story of Abigail Scott dunaway, an oregon pioneer and Political Rights activist t. Shes an example of one of the really great diaries. She describes whats happening between the people, she describes troubles that happen. She describes the landscape and the scenery and its clear i mean, you get a pretty good inkling here that shes a pretty good writer. That skill served her well later on in her career. Here, wayne morris from oregon. He was a bit of a curmudgeon. He was a man of high principle and if you didnt have the same level of principles and integrity as he did, he would be vocal about that. He was very critical of other senators. H
The leadership in congress has a lot of power but only if the folks back home keep sending them back to congress. And what happened last night, the defeat of a majority leader in Congress Never happened before. The New York Times called it one of the most stunning primary election upsets in congressional history. The Associated Press called it an upset for the ages. Eric cantor, the number two ranking republican in the power structure, is gone, beaten by a College Professor with a simple message for the folks back home in cantors virginia district. Those folks last night had a big voice in national politics. Its where we start tonight with Nbcs Kelly Odonnell and glen allen, virginia. Kelly, good evening. Reporter good evening, brian. Its stormy here outside the challengers headquarters. This is not the history eric cantor hoped to make and when he came before reporters today, he repeatedly declined to offer any sort of political analysis about his own sudden fall. Jolted by his unexpe
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President Clinton's 1995 defense budget, which allocates $1.29 trillion for defense from 1995 through 1999, continues his Administration ,s systematic dismantling of the nation's defenses so painstakingly rebuilt by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s., In the Clinton plan, the Department of Defense will fall short of its funding re- quirements-as outlined in the Administration's own "Bottom-Up Review"-by nearly $ 100 billion. The Ad- ministration and Congress must stop looking for "savings" in the defense budget, which has paid more than its share in cost-cutting efforts by three Administrations since the Reagan build-up peaked in 1985. To be sure, Clinton slightly raised this year's defense budget by $1.8 billion.2 However, when adjusted for in- flation, the 1995 defense budget still shows a decline of 0.9 percent. This is the tenth straight year of declining defense budgets. Furthermore, the budget will decline in inflation-adjusted terms in each of th