03/25/2009
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"Well, let me tell you one thing we've learned. Iron Dome's Tamir interceptor cost $96,000. Our Patriot MSE missile cost $4 million."
"Well, given choices, and that's what you have to make in your role here, between $4 billion on better sensors versus building an East Coast ground-based missile defense, what's your choice?"
"I worry as well about providing more funds than you can responsibly allocate and spend."
"Congress appropriated in 2018 $11.5 billion for the Missile Defense Agency, which is greater than 5--greater than $3 billion above the initial request by the President."