Rob Bishop: “I appreciate the gentleman from Florida yielding. I now owe you one more. This is an impeccably good rule. It made in…”

“I appreciate the gentleman from Florida yielding. I now owe you one more. This is an impeccably good rule. It made in order 172 amendments, which makes someone wonder why we have committees in the first place. I wish to bring to light three of those particular amendments so they're not overlooked in the rhetoric that we have going here today, because each does have an impact on the readiness taking place. The first one is one by the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Pearce), which would ask the agencies of this government to communicate with the military when something actually would impact the military; in this case, BLM making a decision which would have a great deal of impact on our military lands in New Mexico. We saw this earlier when NASA decided to change its flight program--it had a great deal of impact on the cost of our missile defense system--and when the FAA decided to close towers, which impacted three military bases and made their security much more tenuous, and all of these cases without ever discussing the impact of those decisions with the military. We have an administration that seems to have the problem of interagency communication--when the actions of one impact the actions of the other--and this is the first step to move it that way. Mrs. Lummis of Wyoming has an amendment which would create a warm line for the ICBM. Not only would this increase our security, but it ensures we have an adequate industrial base.…”