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Latest Answers http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/latest/%2A/%2A/191/%2A a view of answers sorted by date en Well, to begin with the military spending as a percentage of the federal budget is less than it used to be. The biggest part of the federal spending is entitlement spending, that’s 60 percent and military spending represents about 15 percent. So I would think their question should have been: “Should we cut domestic spending in non-military accounts?” Since the first obligation of a federal government is to defend the country. Matt Laslo: But it seems like everyone is afraid of entitlements – do you see any political will…? Gregg: Well, we’re gonna have to face up to them because they are going to overwhelm our capacity to pay for them pretty soon.**NOTE***: Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) is the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3Bwell%2C-begin-military-spending-percentage-federal-budget-less-it-used-be.-biggest-pa Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:59:43 -0500 Matt Laslo 1403 at http://askyourlawmaker.org Yeah, I do think there is a great degree of unwarranted and unconstitutional secrecy in the dealing with the executive branch over the last 7 years and I think that was allowed to occur because the Congress basically shirked its role as a coequal branch of government and became a rubber stamp for the executive branch and so the system did not work but during the past year after the Democrats have taken control there has been whole lot more of oversight, hearings and investigations into various processes and functions of the executive branch and what we have been met with in many cases is a brick wall they don’t want to cooperate particularly with respect to the Justice department don’t want to cooperate and so we have had to issue subpoenas and certain matters already before the courts. I think legislative branch has reclaimed its rightful coequal branch of government and as long as you have the three coequal branches of government then there is really no need to diminish the power of the executive branch, but unchecked the executive can run rough shod over people rights and that is exactly what has happened during the last seven and half years. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/yeah%2C-i-do-think-there-great-degree-unwarranted-and-unconstitutional-secrecy-dealing-executi Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:18:08 -0500 Robin Wright 1377 at http://askyourlawmaker.org