Political Quotes

“Madam President, a part of the appropriations supplemental bill we will consider tomorrow is approximately $245 million--I think I have that figure right--for the additional assistance to the Israeli Government for the Iron Dome system. The United States has been assisting Israel in order to be able to buy this system. To the credit of the scientists and the military planners in Israel, they developed this system, and it is a very sophisticated system. As a matter of fact, when you watch the rockets go off, you will see an incoming round coming, in this case from Gaza, often without any precision guidance. That is an interesting thing, that they are shooting at urbanized areas where the general civilian population is, and they have incoming rounds that no one knows where they are going; thus, the need for a sophisticated radar that can track it and distinguish first if it is going to fall in an area where there is nobody, where there is nothing in the way of equipment that would be harmed and, therefore, save the ordnance that otherwise would be shot. But the radar is so sophisticated that within seconds and fractions of seconds it can determine that, and then shoot off the round that will intercept the incoming round. It is a sight to behold to see this Iron Dome rocket go upward and then change its trajectory, almost at a 90-degree angle, to home in on the incoming warhead, and they have a 90-percent success rate.…”