David Skaggs: “is the issue Henry Foster's nomination to be Surgeon General? No, that is not the real issue. What is really going on?…”

let us understand what this is really all about. this is the de facto abrogation of the ABM Treaty because we would be prohibited, under the terms of this amendment, from participating in the Standing Consultative Committee under the ABM…

I guess I am in the awkward position of wanting to help love their amendment to death, to acknowledge how meritorious their claim is for additional resources but then say, as the chairman has, 'Not here.' Because the account that they…

I hope the chairman would review this matter when we do go to conference to see if a similar provision could be included in the final version of the bill, which I think would be a good idea.

Nonetheless we did this UHF to VHF conversion, and it was really no surprise that the signal still did not get through. Let me just give my colleagues some visual evidence that was elicited by one of our own government technicians who went…