This is not just non-defense discretionary, it's both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Background Briefing On The Budget] Reference

Graham: "We can have a spending freeze in non-defense areas!".    From Wordnik.com.  [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference

Over Bill Clinton's term, spending non-defense was up 3.2 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2006] Reference

This divided American industry into defense and non-defense sectors.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Clinton Signs Procurement Streamlining Bill] Reference

So there will be some interesting dialogue between defense and non-defense folks.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2004] Reference

Most worrisome, orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft fell 8 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable goods orders disappoint in latest sign of economic weakness] Reference

For many years, it was all this defense research which had a lot of non-defense implications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview Of The President By Science Magazine] Reference

STABENOW: Well, again, you could cut every single non-defense program and not cut this deficit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2005] Reference

But, according to congressional sources, money for Medicare and non-defense programs will be cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2006] Reference

Non-homeland, non-defense discretionary spending was raising at 15 percent a year when I got into office.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2004] Reference

However, defense capital goods orders decreased 5.3% in June, while non-defense capital goods fell by 2.0%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spending, Income Flat in June] Reference

In the U.S., spending on R&D as a percentage of economic output, defense and non-defense, is on the decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2005] Reference

What we do have is additional savings on what are called the non-defense, non-investment discretionary areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Background Briefing On The Budget] Reference

Since President Clinton took office, non-defense discretionary spending has fallen from 3.7 percent of GDP in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton Gore Administration Fy2001 Budget Summary Documents] Reference

It cuts non-defense discretionary spending by an average of 20 percent across the board, except for education.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Via Satellite To State Legislatures Conf] Reference

Total U.S. support of non-defense R&D is about 1.9 percent of GDP, below that of Germany (2.5 percent) and Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science In The National Interest Policy Statement] Reference

Q Where do you see the federal government's role heading in funding non-defense research in science and technology?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks Of The President In Online Town Hall Meeting] Reference

Spending cuts of this magnitude would require a nearly 50 percent cut in non-defense discretionary spending in 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fact Sheets On Budget And Taxes] Reference

On discretionary -- discretionary, incidentally, includes both non-defense and defense spending when we use this number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Background Briefing On The Budget] Reference

It's roughly off the '95 number, about a five-percent reduction, below the' 95 levels that you have in the non-defense area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Background Briefing On The Budget] Reference

Currently the U.S. invests 1.9 percent of GDP in non-defense R&D compared to 3.0 percent in Japan and 2.7 percent in Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology For Economic Growth In America] Reference

He said, if you cut spending in non-defense areas, in non-defense discretionary spending, that you could actually cover the costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2009] Reference

MR. LEW: But that is below the current service level, and it's actually below a hard freeze level in terms of non-defense spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing On The Budget Resolution] Reference

There are numerous promises to cut non-defense spending, freeze non-security hires in the government, and sunset government programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary D. Bass, Ph.D.: GOP 'Pledge' Is Simply a Way of Shutting Down a Large Part of Government] Reference

Only about -- only about 30 percent of the overall budget, somewhere between 25 and 30 percent is non-defense discretionary spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2009] Reference

If you were to spread the pain between defense and non-defense, we're talking of cuts of more than 25 percent in non-defense spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Staff Members] Reference

The "Pledge" would freeze the tax code for two years and fund non-defense spending at 2008 levels — before the bailouts and stimulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democrats Run From Pelosi] Reference

Also, a barometer of capital spending by businesses rose; orders for non-defense capital goods, excluding aircraft, increased by 4.1 %.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable Goods Fail to Dent U.S. Futures] Reference

So anything they say is a reserve has to come from cutting even deeper into defense or other entitlements or non-defense discretionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Gene Sperling] Reference

My budget reduces discretionary spending for non-defense programs as a share of the economy by more than 10 percent over the next decade.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2009] Reference

Over the next decade, we'll bring non-defense discretionary spending to its lowest level as a share of Gross Domestic Product since 1962.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 7, 2009] Reference

He said as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, we're reducing non-defense discretionary spending to its lowest level since the 1960s.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2009] Reference

Second, the goal should be the gradual elimination of all non-defense subsidies, because Boeing and Airbus no longer need taxpayer support.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Blowout] Reference