Do you know what its intent is? Have you asked the people who put the language in here what its intent is?
I have been one that is more than willing to look at that as an option, but I just do not want to mislead my good friend from Kansas by my s...
We know that the debate about whether to go to war and if so, whether we should go with or without authorization of the United Nations, is p...
I want to just ask General Shinseki about his reference to the missile defense system.
Prior to the decision to deploy, did Secretary Rumsfeld ask you for advice regarding the military utility of the national missile defense sy...
I think these proposals, taken together or separately, would undermine the ability of the uniformed military to provide independent military...
the absence of a long-range target that will be able to exercise the Cobra Dane radar will preclude a system-level flight test of the 2004 n...
So are you saying that if we make a proposal along this line it would be for patrols in a non-hostile environment?
We are not going to be able to test the 2004 system that is being fielded as a complete system with a realistic, actual long-range target.
So there is not a long-range target suitable to be used for that test; is that correct?
I think the steps taken by our President, and supported by the witnesses before us, are very prudent and the correct steps.