Ronald Dellums: “I would like to finish my remarks with respect to where we can save money. I mentioned about the time factor slowing…”

“I would like to finish my remarks with respect to where we can save money. I mentioned about the time factor slowing that down, save billions of dollars, not a radical idea. Moving away from cold war weapons, saving billions of dollars, not a radical idea. Mr. Chairman, the third place where we can save money is to reduce our nuclear forces, our nuclear weapons and reduce the inventory that supports our nuclear weapons. We all know that we are going to move to Start III. We ought to anticipate moving to Start III. None of us in this room would put money in a base that is going to be closed. We know that we are going to Start III. Why do we put money in this budget for D-5 missiles for the deployment on Trident submarines when we know eventually we are going to reduce the number of submarines, reduce the number of weapons, thereby saving billions of dollars? By reducing our nuclear arsenal for our children and our children's children, and reducing the infrastructure designed to support those nuclear weapons, we can indeed reduce, save billions of dollars.”