On the recordMay 25, 2011
Woman, as we meet tonight in support of the Sanchez amendment, we have 30 ground-based interceptors at Fort Greely and at Vandenberg. We have an Aegis Array at sea. We have other radar protections for this country. And we have an effort to give $100 million to a military leader who said the following in April when he was talking about what he needed, referring to Senator Levin in the Senate, ``Right now, sir, I've got the funding I need to address the problem of the FTG-06 failure because I've stopped my production line. That was not to save any money. It was solely driven by the need to confirm the design works before we go back into production.'' Let's not give a military leader $100 million he didn't ask for, for something that doesn't work yet, that isn't needed to defend the country. Vote for the Sanchez amendment.
