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Pete Aguilar: “If anything, my former chairman, when I was on Armed Services, is consistent. He is right. He has continued to oppose…”

On the recordJuly 12, 2017
If anything, my former chairman, when I was on Armed Services, is consistent. He is right. He has continued to oppose this amendment in the past. But what I ask is: Why not have a 30-year estimate? We have one for the Navy. We have one for other programs. If these reports truly aren't worth the paper that they are written on, then why commission this report? It is almost $400,000 in taxpayer costs. {time} 2200 The taxpayers deserve, and we deserve, to provide oversight over these costs. If Congress hopes to provide the oversight for modernizing these efforts, we need these up-to-date reports that accurately reflect these updates and changes to bombs, warheads, and delivery systems. I hope that the chairman would agree with me there. I yield back the balance of my time.
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Pete Aguilar
Democratic · California
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Jul 12, 2017

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