On the recordFebruary 15, 2011
I have thousands of service personnel who serve our country, and I have hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who pay for the government of our country, and I am convinced that the right answer for our service personnel and for our taxpayers is to oppose this amendment. We produced two pieces of legislation that passed the House, essentially unanimously. And in that process of Democrat and Republican working together, we learned something very disturbing, and that was that, in major weapons systems, costs had skyrocketed by $296 billion over what they were supposed to cost, and the delay in fielding these systems had gone from an average of 16 months behind to 22 months behind.
