I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 413 
To reduce the budget of the Department of Defense to the level provided 
for fiscal year 2008 and to freeze the budget at such level through 
fiscal year 2016. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 25, 2011 
Mr. STARK introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To reduce the budget of the Department of Defense to the 
level provided for fiscal year 2008 and to freeze the 
budget at such level through fiscal year 2016. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Defense and Deficit 
Reduction Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Under H. Res. 38, the Chair of the Com-
mittee on the Budget shall include in the Congres-
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sional Record an allocation for the remainder of fis-
cal year 2011 that assumes nonsecurity spending at 
fiscal year 2008 levels. 
(2) Reductions in defense spending should be 
included in any effort to reduce Federal outlays and 
reduce the national deficit. 
(3) In fiscal year 2010, defense spending com-
prised 58 percent of discretionary spending. 
(4) If defense spending continued at fiscal year 
2010 levels for the next 5 years, it would total 
$3,600,000,000,000. 
(5) Reducing defense spending to fiscal year 
2008 
levels 
would 
save 
approximately 
$182,000,000,000 over 5 years compared to current 
levels. 
(6) In January 2011 Secretary of Defense 
Gates stated that the Administration is seeking 
$78,000,000,000 in cuts to the defense budget over 
the next five years on top of $100,000,000,000 in 
efficiencies. This savings should be used to decrease 
the deficit. 
(7) President Obama has pledged to begin 
drawing down forces in Afghanistan in July 2011 
with a goal of full withdrawal in 2014. With a de-
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crease in troops abroad, our defense spending should 
decrease. 
(8) In a CBS News Poll from January 2011, 
over 50 percent of Americans questioned would re-
duce defense spending to decrease the Federal def-
icit. 
(9) The United States currently spends more 
on its military and defense than the next 19 biggest 
spending nations combined. 
(10) Making reasonable reductions to the de-
fense budget can help to solve the Nation’s long- 
term fiscal problems. 
SEC. 3. REDUCTION AND FREEZE IN BUDGET OF DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE. 
(a) REDUCTION
AND
FREEZE.—The aggregate 
amount of funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
for military functions administered by the Department of 
Defense (other than the functions excluded by subsection 
(b)) for a fiscal year may not exceed— 
(1) in the case of fiscal year 2011, the aggre-
gate amount of funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available for military functions administered 
by the Department of Defense (other than the func-
tions excluded by subsection (b)) for fiscal year 
2008; and 
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(2) in the case of fiscal years 2012 through 
2016, the aggregate amount of funds appropriated 
or otherwise made available for such functions for 
the previous fiscal year. 
(b) EXCLUSION OF MILITARY PERSONNEL PAY AND 
BENEFITS.—In determining the aggregate amount of 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available for mili-
tary functions administered by the Department of Defense 
for fiscal year 2008 or any subsequent fiscal year for pur-
poses of subsection (a), there shall be excluded all amounts 
appropriated or otherwise made available in general and 
supplemental appropriations Acts for— 
(1) military personnel, reserve personnel, and 
National Guard personnel accounts of the Depart-
ment of Defense, generally title I of the annual De-
partment of Defense appropriations Act; 
(2) the Defense Health Program; and 
(3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities 
of the Department of Defense, but only to the extent 
the amounts were transferred to personnel accounts 
referred to in paragraph (1). 
(c) USE OF SAVINGS.—All funds saved by the imple-
mentation of this section shall be used for deficit reduc-
tion. 
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