Political Quotes

“I thank my good friend for offering this very important and very timely resolution. It asks many of the tough questions that have to be asked, and we need answers. Mr. Speaker, journalist Paul Bedard wrote an incisive article on February 3 entitled: ``Dry run: Balloons called top `delivery platform' for nuclear EMP attack.'' It points out that, obviously, the grid would be fried; we would be unable to do just about anything. Here is a balloon going over our military installations, including our ICBM base, with the capability to launch an EMP attack. Did we know it? Did it have such a payload? We have no idea. Let me also say surveillance was at a minimum what was happening. It should have been shot down much sooner over the Aleutian Islands in a way that would have just stopped this unbelievable breach of U.S. sovereignty. He quotes in this article a man by the name of David Stuckenberg, who is an EMP expert, and he says: ``A high altitude balloon could be designed, created, and launched in a matter of months.'' And that is what they did. ``There is nothing to prevent several hundred pounds of weapons material from being delivered'' from that altitude. He talks about the flyover as being a dry run. They are testing us, and we did not rise to that challenge. Let me say to my friends and colleagues: The militaristic aspirations of the PRC and Xi Jinping are global.…”