IA 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. J. RES. 67 
Supporting a base Defense Budget that at the very minimum matches 4 
percent of gross domestic product. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 6, 2007 
Mr. FRANKS of Arizona (for himself, Mr. GOODE, Mr. DAVID DAVIS of Ten-
nessee, Mr. AKIN, Mr. HUNTER, Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. THORNBERRY, Mr. 
NEUGEBAUER, Mr. SAXTON, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mr. RENZI, Mr. COLE of 
Oklahoma, Mr. KUHL of New York, Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. 
LAMBORN, Mr. GINGREY, Mr. BARRETT
of South Carolina, Mr. 
MCCOTTER, and Mr. MILLER of Florida) introduced the following joint 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Supporting a base Defense Budget that at the very minimum 
matches 4 percent of gross domestic product. 
Whereas the defense of the United States is contingent on 
fully equipped, fully armed, well trained, and healthy vol-
unteer armed forces who must receive unconditional 
moral and monetary support from the Congress; 
Whereas the United States is engaged in a long war with 
those who employ terror and the operational theater is 
expanding; 
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Whereas since the end of the Cold War, demands on the 
Armed Forces have increased at the same time the size 
of the force has decreased; 
Whereas the demands on the Reserve component and Na-
tional Guard have significantly increased in both oper-
ations overseas and in the homeland; 
Whereas we cannot continue to commit our military forces 
with other assignments around the world without funds 
needed to carry out the missions they are assigned; 
Whereas the current equipment is being worn out and dam-
aged and must be rebuilt or replaced; 
Whereas there is a broad consensus that there must be sig-
nificant personnel increases in both the United States 
Army and Marine Corps, which are authorized to grow 
by 94,000 soldiers and Marines within the next 5 years; 
Whereas Congress must robustly fund the United States 
Army in order for the Army to undertake its first mod-
ernization program in nearly 40 years; 
Whereas the Navy has seen its fleet of 568 ships in the late 
1980’s shrink to just 276 in 2007; 
Whereas the number of fighter wing equivalents in the Air 
Force has dropped from 37 at the time of Operation 
Desert Storm to 20, and the average age of Air Force 
aircraft has risen from 9 years in 1973 to 24 years by 
2007; 
Whereas in constant FY2008 dollars, United States Air 
Force procurement has been cut by almost half between 
FY1985 and FY2006; 
Whereas in constant FY2008 dollars, U.S. Air Force Re-
search, Development, Test and Evaluation (‘‘RDT & E’’) 
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is projected to drop by half between FY2006 and 
FY2012; 
Whereas the defense budget is scheduled to drop in the com-
ing years, to just 3.2 percent of gross domestic product 
by 2012; 
Whereas the United States should put economic policies in 
place that will grow gross domestic product to permit the 
United States to spend more on National defense in real 
dollar terms; 
Whereas a defense budget of 4 percent of gross domestic 
product is far lower than during the Cold War and al-
most a full percentage point lower than the ‘‘hollow 
force’’ era following the Vietnam War; and 
Whereas without maintaining a robust defense budget of no 
less than 4 percent of gross domestic product over the 
next 10 years, the United States will be unable to equip, 
train, and modernize a full-spectrum force to preserve 
America’s security: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That it is the policy of the United States to commit a 
minimum of 4 percent of the Nation’s gross domestic 
product to the base defense budget in order to meet the 
fundamental National security requirements of the United 
States. 
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