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Clinton's Big Bucks Defense Proposal
The President's year 2000 defense budget includes twelve billion dollars in new funds and 110 billion dollars over the next six years. It's not enough. That's what the country's military chiefs are saying. After years of declining military budgets, the Pentagon says huge increases are needed to simply maintain what they've got. But critics say Bill Clinton is simply strengthening his centrist power base by bowing to defense budget hawks. The President's military increases - are they needed? Are they not nearly enough?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readCharlie Jezcek: Assistant director, General Accounting Office education and employment issue area. Principle investigator on report on labor needs in agriculture. Richard Rogers: Los Angeles District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Office. Roy Gabriel: Legislative Director, California Farm Bureau Mark Grossman: Director of press organizations, United Farmworkers. Former press secretary for Cesar Chavez. Congressman Bob Smith: Republican Congressman from Oregon's second district, which covers 20 mostly rural counties across the state. His bill, HR 2377 proposes expanding the temporary agriculture workers program. Congressman Howard Berman: Democratic Congressman from LA. Has been working on farmworker issues since joining the California Assembly. Dan Stein: Executive Director, Federation for American Immigrant Reform. Ana Pagan: Assistant Director, Administrative Services Bureau, Kern County Department of Human Services. David Leibhold: Jakarta based reporter for Time Magazine.
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