Blake Moore: “I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank my friend from California for the debate as well. Mr. Speaker, we debate…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank my friend from California for the debate as well. Mr. Speaker, we debate this often. We have made our points. We have done this in committee for several months. I want to highlight a couple of things here of what I believe is misinformation about this program, specifically related to the cost and effectiveness of the current Minuteman III. The amendment sponsors will claim that the Congressional Budget Office has concluded that Minuteman III life extension will cost $37 billion less than GBSD. The Office of the Secretary of Defense and the U.S. Air Force have come to a different conclusion. I recall conversations in a committee hearing with Secretary Roth, an appointment of President Biden, talking about when you look at the overall benefit of GBSD, if we continue to try to fix our old carburetor or my old furnace, it is not going to be more effective for what the long-term gain is. The Democrat sponsors will claim that the Air Force has stated that they can extend the Minuteman III. Admiral Richard told us that a life extension is not possible. We simply don't have the parts. We have the engineers at Hill Air Force Base that are looking on eBay, trying to get actual parts for this. Mr. Speaker, this is not possible. It is time to modernize.”