Political Quotes

“once again I rise unfortunately to object to this amendment offered by my good friend and colleague. Mr. Chairman, what we are asked to vote on right now is an amendment that in fact would specifically detail to the Secretary what type of plan he would bring back to us. We have heard from the other side that the Congress should not be micro-managing what our defense posture should be. What this amendment does is specifically state what kinds of architecture in fact can be recommended by the appropriate people in the Clinton administration. Mr. Chairman, there is no one on the floor of the House tonight advocating star wars, as we said earlier. What we are advocating is a logical, systematic approach to ballistic missile defense technologies that are recommended by those appropriate officials within the Clinton defense establishment. That is in fact what we are asking for. To say that we are somehow turning around and asking for some pie-in-the-sky thing, with no dollar assessments, is absolutely wrong. And as our good friend and colleague knows, whatever comes back in the form of a recommendation has to go through an authorization process and an appropriations process.”