Conyers: President Obama’s Strategy Review Good First Step in Modernizing Defense Posture; Additional Spending Cuts Needed to Properly Balance Our Domestic and National Security Needs

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For Immediate Release
Date: Thursday, January 5, 2012
Contact: Matthew Morgan – 202-226-5543

Conyers: President Obama’s Strategy Review Good First Step in Modernizing Defense Posture; Additional Spending Cuts Needed to Properly Balance Our Domestic and National Security Needs  

(WASHINGTON) – Today, Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the following statement applauding the Department of Defense’s strategic review announced today by President Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey. 

“The Strategic Review announced by President Obama, Secretary Panetta, and General Dempsey today at the Pentagon will go a long way towards rebalancing our domestic and national security needs by establishing a force structure that can best address the changing threats our country will face in the 21^st Century,” said Conyers.  “While I strongly endorse this smart refocusing of our funding priorities, I believe we can and must do more to bring our defense spending back to historic peacetime levels.  For example, the current framework envisions only an 8 percent force builddown, which is far less than the builddown which occurred during the 1980s under President Reagan.”