Rethinking our Defense Budget: Achieving National Security through Sustainable Spending

House Oversight Committee - Rethinking our Defense Budget: Achieving National Security through Sustainable Spending - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. On Tuesday, July 20, 2010, at 10 a.m. in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building, the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs held a hearing entitled, “Rethinking our Defense Budget: Achieving National Security through Sustainable Spending.” This hearing continued the Subcommittee’s oversight of defense spending by examining recent scholarship and policy research on defense budget reform, including the conclusions and recommendations made in a recent report by the Sustainable Defense Task Force, Debt, Deficits, & Defense: A Way Forward, which presents a series of recommendations to reduce the budget of the Department of Defense by 60 billion by 2020. Witnesses offered perspectives on the Department of Defense’s plan to cut military spending in the context of national security priorities and the current economi close