On the recordMay 20, 2014
While the President is the Commander in Chief--this is the issue of micromanaging--the Constitution gives Congress the power to raise and support armies and to provide and maintain a Navy. It is our duty and responsibility to help shape our Nation's defense policy. Regarding the ICBMs, they are deployed in hardened silos. That would tend to force an opponent to exhaust his own nuclear forces to disarm U.S. ICBMs, leaving the opponent vulnerable to a U.S. retaliatory strike. Without ICBMs, as few as five nuclear warheads could successfully disarm the U.S. Now I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North Dakota, Kevin Cramer, my friend.
