12/01/1997
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We are the ones, this committee before I was in Congress, put the C-RAM in Iraq in the first place.
But don't spend $18 billion that way. Spend it where it has the most effect, which is the U.S. Coast Guard.
Take the $18 billion, spend some portion of it to rebuild the fences that we presently have.
Without the Jones Act, without the Maritime Security Program, without cargo preference, our ability to project the force...