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“my fellow colleagues, today's New York Times reports that Dr. Theodore Postol, a prominent scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says that the National Missile Defense Plan that we are considering authorizing at this moment is a hoax. He says that the Missile Defense System cannot distinguish incoming weapons from decoys. He says in this article, in today's New York Times, that the contractors and the Department of Defense have deceptively planted the data of the tests. I want to repeat that, this article in today's New York Times says from a prominent scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology that contractors and the Department of Defense have deceptively manipulated the data of tests for this National Missile Defense System, which this bill will authorize $2.2 billion. This time we know about the scandal before we vote on the money. Dr. Postol is calling on the administration to appoint an independent high-level scientific panel to investigate alleged efforts to cover up these flaws. Why would Congress authorize $2.2 billion for more fraudulent tests on the same day that The New York Times carries this story? I urge my colleagues to vote yes on the motion to recommit in order to give us a chance to take account of the fraud in past tests of the National Missile Defense System and to save the taxpayers billions of dollars in tests.”