Political Quotes

“I will be offering and then withdrawing this amendment because of a point of order on the timing of the budget outlays that we are not able to reconcile at this point in time. But I want to thank the chairman of the subcommittee, Chairman Frelinghuysen, and Ranking Member Visclosky, for their leadership. Now, this is an important amendment though. My amendment would protect from possible cancellation an innovative program that promises to provide a breakthrough capability for a very small amount of money. Right now, if Iran or North Korea launches a ballistic missile attack on our homeland, we, unfortunately, have no enhanced way of knowing whether or not our defensive missiles actually hit the target or not. That is why the Missile Defense Agency is executing a promising and groundbreaking space sensor system called Space-Based Kill Assessment. The U.S. desperately needs improved sensors in space to provide tracking, discrimination, and more. A robust, multimission space sensor network will be vital to ensuring a strong missile defense program. Without this, we might otherwise waste extremely expensive ground-based interceptors, costing the taxpayer more money, and depleting our limited number of interceptors. The Space-based Kill Assessment program cannot survive a 50 percent cut.…”