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“I have four amendments, all of which are in the en bloc, or five amendments, actually. One is a noncontroversial amendment I have cosponsored with the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Pickett) clarifying our R&D section of the bill. A second clarifies our jurisdiction over next generation internet, to make sure that all the funding for next generation internet paid for by the Department of Defense is, in fact, authorized by the defense authorization bill. The third amendment, Mr. Chairman, deals with the issue of a nuclear race cooperative program with Russia, a very severe problem. It allows our military, where they desire, to in fact exchange cooperative assistance to the Russians in cleaning up what is, in fact, a very real problem with their spent nuclear fuel and with their deactivated nuclear submarines. The two major amendments I wanted to focus on, first off all is the THAAD amendment. We had, unfortunately, the fifth unsuccessful test of the THAAD program. Working with my colleague, the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spratt), we have gone in and we have tweaked the contractor. We are giving the Department of Defense the authorization to impose liability on any further failures of the test of THAAD.”