Also noted are the six times in the past 10 years he voted to freeze or reduce defense spending.
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Despite the lack of specifics, the agreement is the latest example of how the U.S. is trying to underline its continued commitment to the Asia-Pacific region, as U.S. allies increasingly turn to Washington for reassurance that it will intervene if a military conflict occurs, even as domestic austerity pressure forces the Pentagon to reduce its defense spending.
He voted six times in the past decade to freeze or reduce spending on defense.
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Before the cuts are implemented, however, Congress has at least a year to repeal or reduce the mandated defense spending cuts, and some lawmakers have already begun working toward that end, arguing their case and gathering support.
At Cinergy, a spokesman said it's working with Environmental Defense to reduce emissions by 5% off year 2000 levels by 2010.
There should be a way to reduce billions of dollars of defense spending without sacrificing the safety and well being of our country and the people who defend us.
These will result partly from cutting force structure such as Army brigades, but also from decisions by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to reduce the number of military personnel performing so-called commercial functions.
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It is striking therefore that now-President Clinton appears set to reduce dramatically the U.S. strategic defense program.
We've already, in this budget, slated that in the out years we're going to reduce non-discretionary -- non-defense discretionary spending.
As frustrations mount with the tenor of government-industry relations, almost all of the big defense contractors will probably move to reduce their military exposure.
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One of the reasons why we're here, one of the reasons why we had the fiscal cliff fight and why we're discussing this is that everybody recognizes that these kind of indiscriminate, across-the-board cuts aren't good for the economy, aren't good for our defense, and they're not the way to sensibly reduce our deficit.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates are in Russia today, and they are hoping to reduce tensions between Washington and Moscow.
It may not be possible to reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq this year, according to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's testimony before a Senate committee.
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While they might disagree on how best to reduce the deficit, congressional leaders in both parties now endorse the necessity of a strong missile defense as the cheapest insurance against the tragedy of a nuclear attack on a U.S. city.
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In addition, such republics must take steps to reduce the size of any military establishment on their soil and to decrease radically the priority accorded to defense expenditures.
Everything other than defense spending and entitlements like Social Security and Medicare -- we're going to reduce those to the lowest level relative to GDP of any time since the 1960s.
Timbal says that defense is a resource-intensive sector which demands huge expenditures, so it is possible to reduce expenditures, especially in state arms purchases.
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Among the issues agreed upon was launching military dialogue to reduce tensions (a senior South Korean official later said that bilateral talks would be held between the respective defense ministers).
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