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On the recordJuly 27, 2017
I would like to point out that Ronald Reagan never illuminated the possibility of this to the American public, because the possibility never existed. What we have today is not a missile defense system. It has failed in the great majority of tests. It has been tested against a very small fraction of the countermeasures that are elementary to deploy against it. I hope that no one involved in the missile defense system is telling President Trump that we have an effective antimissile system today, because if he gambles counting on any defense from that system, he is putting our country at risk. Mr. Chairman, I yield the remaining amount of my time to the ranking member.
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Bill Foster
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 27, 2017

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