Andrew P. Hunter

The B-52 is still our Nation's most capable and only dual-role bomber and provides substantial conventional firepower and a strong nuclear deterrent. The committee believes that maintaining the current inventory of 94 B-52's is a…

Let me just say in a couple of areas that the gentleman from Colorado [Mr. Hefley] is right and the gentlewoman from Colorado [Mrs. Schroeder] is right. We have the pay raise, which is absolutely important to our people. We have the…

To follow my friend, it is true that this is the first President who sent our jobs to Mexico, our troops to Bosnia, and our balanced budget to the White House trash can. He has done something else, Mr. Speaker, and that is to veto the…

If we did not compromise, why did we take out the multiple-site language to accommodate the President?

I wanted to say I was walking by the floor when I saw the gentleman making his presentation, and those of us on the Committee on National Security were very impressed with your plan for the Joliet Arsenal. We have waived jurisdiction so it…

Compared to the B-52, the B-1 is a baby. But even then, when all the B-52's are gone, we are down to 95 B-1's. The study that was given to us, that we should be able to fight in two places at one time, we need 174 long-range bombers, we…

The gentleman mentioned our ability to project power off aircraft carriers. I was reminded again, as we all were who watched CNN and read the front page of the newspapers, of American, I believe it was A-7 aircraft that were shot down by…

As I understand it, this permanentizes our waiver. If we do not achieve it, we will be back in the same boat perhaps in a year or two begging the Federal Government not to force us to spend in San Diego several billions of dollars.

Let me offer to my friend that his idea that this comes out of the Secretary of Defense's office, I think, is a good one, because the Secretary of Defense himself commissions literally dozens and dozens of studies from outside groups. That…

Let me take back my time one more time and say the gentleman is wrong. When President Kennedy said, ``We're going to put somebody on the Moon,'' he did not go through all the hearings first. He said, ``That's our goal, that's our policy.''…

I just say to my friend, Secretary Perry just appeared before us with the words I just showed him that said we can defend against an attack for $5 billion----

My question was, Mr. Chairman, if we are going to rely on deterrence, as the gentleman has suggested with national missile defense, and not have a national missile defense, why does not that same reliance on deterrence, why is it not being…

Let me just ask my friend, if he relies on a policy of deterrence based on the idea that we are going to destroy anyone who launches a ballistic missile against the United States, why wouldn't he use the same rationale and rely on the…

I would answer my friend that the Patriot system probably cost us a fortune. Almost everything that we did under our procurement regulations did.

Let me tell my colleagues also that two representatives from two of our national nuclear laboratories were here last week stating that they can build a space system for about 50 percent more. That is about $7.5 billion. And that, once…

This is an important policy decision that the administration is undertaking right now with respect to theater defense limitations. I think it is an extremely important issue. I would like to get a vote on it because I think it is important…

What I would like to do and what others would like to do is change the position of the administration and not constrain theater missile defense. I think it is a very difficult thing to do right now when the threat is evolving rapidly, and…

No, Mr. Chairman. If the gentleman will continue to yield, there were two concerns expressed by the Republican leadership. One is multilateralization, bringing in the former Soviet States, Byelorus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and others, but it…

But he managed to get five MiG's before they got him. I guest I would ask my friend, he has seen the language that places us square in the middle of the missile age. That is, it mandates that we develop theater defense against missiles…

It was a very short war because the United States has overwhelming force, and that was the point that I am getting to, that you reap a couple of benefits from having a vastly superior force. One is that you close the war down quickly by…

Well, actually I think it would be very, very difficult for the United States to be engaged in two wars the magnitude of Desert Storm and win, and secondly, even if we won, it would be very difficult to win without taking enormous…

I have to say that you were my leader in the Reagan revolution on the House floor and did a wonderful job. The gentleman from Georgia, who has mentioned all the great accomplishments of Ronald Reagan, he himself standing here obviously is…

Let me just say to my friends almost every book that is published by a major figure is published through a major publishing house.

Let me just say with respect to remuneration, in terms of what you can do to make money in this world, there is probably nothing more democratic, nothing more open, nothing more populist than to make your words available to millions of…

I might just say with respect to the dollars that are spent on national security, I saw an interesting fact when looking over the defense budgets that this House and the other body and the President have passed over the last 10 years or…