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On the recordMarch 22, 1999
We cannot push a national missile defense system so as to undermine the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) or the potential to further reduce weapons of mass destruction in future treaties.
Said by
Sheila Jackson Lee
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Concern about the impact of missile defense on existing arms treaties.

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