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| CREC-2020-12-30-pt1-PgS7971-7 | 2020-12-30 | 116 | 2 | NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT | SENATE | SENATE | ALLOTHER | S7971 | S7971 | [{"name": "Mitch McConnell", "role": "speaking"}] | 166 Cong. Rec. S7971 | Congressional Record, Volume 166 Issue 222 (Wednesday, December 30, 2020) [Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 222 (Wednesday, December 30, 2020)] [Senate] [Page S7971] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, today, the Senate was supposed to finish legislation securing critical tools, training, and support for America's Armed Forces, but the junior Senator from Vermont had other ideas. Remember, Senator Sanders spent last summer, literally, trying to defund our military. Not my words, but the title of a piece he published: ``Defund the Pentagon: The Liberal Case.'' Our colleague offered an amendment to strip 10 percent of funding from our servicemembers and decimate our defense budget. The Russians aren't cutting military funding. China isn't cutting funding. But last summer, Senator Sanders and fellow Democrats, including the Democratic leader, voted to make America unilaterally disarm and cut ours. The left took a break from trying to defund the police to try to defund our Armed Forces. Their amendment went down in a landslide, but now our colleague from Vermont is again putting political stunts before the needs of our men and women in uniform. Our colleague says he will slow down this vital bill unless he gets to muscle through another stand-alone proposal from Speaker Pelosi that would add roughly half a trillion dollars to the national debt, which does not align with what President Trump has suggested and which has no realistic path to quickly pass the Senate. Well, as I have said, the Senate will not let our national security be shoved off course, certainly not by Senators who have spent years-- literally years--trying to gut America's capabilities while our adversaries continue ramping up. The Senate will stay on this important bill until we complete it one way or another. ____________________ |