Senate Proceeding on Oct 1st, 2009 :: 7:30:10 to 7:37:25
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Speech By: Daniel Inouye

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Daniel Inouye: quorum call: a senator: madam president? senator from mr. inouye: i ask that the quorum call be rescinded. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inouye: madam president, i'd like to say a few words on few of the contentious issues before us.

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Daniel Inouye: the administration requested $7.4 security forces fund in fiscal year 2010. this is an increase of $1.8 billion over fiscal year 2009 levels, and this is to continue to train and equip the afghan

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Daniel Inouye: national army and the afghan national police. the committee was informed by officials of the department of defense that $1.8 this request would not be spent until fiscal year 2011. and i'd like to repeat

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Daniel Inouye: this amount will not be spent until 2011. and that there was $1.9 billion remaining on the fiscal year 2009 appropriati at the same time, madam president, the committee

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Daniel Inouye: was also aware of a validated, urgent but unfunded requirement from the department of defense for additional all vehicles for afghanistan, something that been asking for with great urgency. recognizing that these funds would not be obligated until

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Daniel Inouye: fiscal year 2011 -- the funds that i mentioned earlier -- and were not required for long-lead equipment of infrastructure projects, the committee transferred $900 million from the afghan security forces fund to the mrap fund to pay for this urgent requirement.

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Daniel Inouye: the redirecting of funds was not an attempt to curtail our afghan security forces. it was solely based on the department's ability to execute the required resources during fiscal year 2010 and unfunded validated requirement

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Daniel Inouye: to procure additional all-terrain mraps for our troops in theres a t debate in both the halls of congress and the pentagon over th forces, how fast can they be

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Daniel Inouye: trained, equipped and missions independent of coalition forces. while many would like to grow the afghan security forces beyond the current plan, the department of defense has not been able to say that they can absorb additional resources in

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Daniel Inouye: fiscal year 2010 or can have additional trainers to reach it is a situation where we need the money, but we can't spend it. we want to appropriate it or we can leave it in the bank. that's a hell of a way to run the

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Daniel Inouye: since 2005, congress has appropriated nearly $19 billion for the traing and equipment of the afghan security forces. these funds have greatly increased over the years, starting from $1.3 billion in

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Daniel Inouye: fiscal year 2005 to $5.6 billion in fy 2009 to $7.4 billion in fy of the $5.6 bil in the last fiscal

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Daniel Inouye: $1.9 billion remains unobligated and the department of defense does not anticipate these funds the $#.4 billion fiscal year request for the afghan security forces is projected to obligate

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Daniel Inouye: $5.6 billion in 2010 and billion in the next fiscal year, 2011. the afghan security forces fund is a two-yearunding account for equipment p infrastructure projects that obligate over a two-year period. the fund's transfer from the

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Daniel Inouye: afghan security trust fund meets the urgent operational requirement for all additional all-terrain mrap's afghanistan were taken from sustainment requirements of the afghan national army and the afghan national police, which

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Daniel Inouye: 2011 long-lead requirements. we took money that areas funded through the sustainment program include fuel, salaries, clothing, individual equipment, rental equipment, all of which do not

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Daniel Inouye: require long lead time. therefore, our 2010 sustainment request for army is a 45% increase over 2009 and a 108% increase over fiscal year 2009 for the afghan national police.

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Daniel Inouye: even with the decrease in this fund, there is substantial flexibility and resource in the afghan security forces fund to meet unanticipated requirements of the security forces and to skpe indict -- pecks indict the growth of t

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Daniel Inouye: the growth of the afghan national army and afghan national madam president, i decided to share these numbers with my colleagues to make certain that they know that the committee has acted on this very carefully. and when we were convinced that the department of defense could

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Daniel Inouye: not use that to use it for some other more urgent purpose. and i should again, madam president, that this bill was passed by the committee, made up of democrats and republicans, conservatives