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Show 3 DEFENSE Congress cut Nixon's defense budget significantly for FY 1972 On November 11, 1971, the House Appropriations Committee recommended $71.048 billion in defense appropriations for fiscal 1972. Although it had edited out $2.5 billion from the original Ad ministration request, its final proposal represented the second larg House Arguing that "Intelligence operations of the Department of Defense have grown beyond the actual needs of the department", the Committee trimmed $181 million from funds intended for the intelligence community. Congressional Quarterly has maintained that if itemized reductions are examined, cuts in intelligence fi nancing amount to $200 million." Intelligence • In coping with the Administration budget requests for Opera tions and Maintenance, the Appropriations Committee whittled the Nixon proposal by $212 million to $20.4 billion.t? Maintenance of weapons procurement, the Committee appropri ated $18.1 billion, $1.5 billion less than the Administration had hoped for. Weapons $27.5 million set aside by the Administration for the Main Battle Tank (MET70) ; instead, it allotted $20 million for the development of two pro totype tanks with similar capabilities. MBT-70 Although the Committee agreed to $76.3 million in funding for the Lance surface to surface nuclear missile, it slashed $2.9 million requested by the Pentagon for development of a non-nuclear Lance Lance proposed that $7.5 billion be spent for research, development, testing, and evaluation of weapons systems and per sonnel programs; this total fell short of the Administration request by $437.6 milllon.v Rand D • est defense • In the request appropriations bill in U. S. history." • • committee trims Nixon area The Committee members decided to refuse the • missle missile. • The Committee • Members of the Committee also attempted to put an end to the rash of studies conducted, at great cost, by the Depense Depart ment. The Army wanted $4.6 million to finance a report on the "Performance Effectiveness of the American Soldier", a 400 per study in fiscal cent increase in the money appropriated for the 1971. The Committee granted only one half of the requested sum. In addition, it denied the $5.7 million asked in funding for an Insti tute of the Individual Soldier, a project which would inquire into behavioral problems of soldiery. The Committee further reduced Studies |
