On the recordMay 14, 2015
I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I thank my colleagues who have helped cosponsor this important amendment. Mr. Chairman, I think that the author of the amendment did a great job in discerning between 3 days and 30 minutes, as 30 minutes is hardly what some have called a ``hair trigger.'' Clearly, we want to be at a strategic advantage, and we would be at a tremendous strategic disadvantage should we have to take 3 days. Anybody who has been to one of these bases, as many of us have--anybody who has been in the bunkers and has seen the control system--knows that the protocols that are in place are anything but a hair trigger. We can be confident that we have the ability to respond quickly but not the ability to respond too quickly. I urge a ``yes'' vote on the amendment.
