Spencer Cox: “Mr. Speaker, last January the Select Committee reached the unanimous and bipartisan conclusion that despite repeated…”

“Mr. Speaker, last January the Select Committee reached the unanimous and bipartisan conclusion that despite repeated Peoples Republic of China thefts of sophisticated U.S. nuclear weapons technology, security at our national weapons laboratories does not meet even minimal standards. Just 2 weeks after the public release of the Select Committee's unclassified report, the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board joined the Select Committee in condemning the wholly inadequate security structure at the weapons laboratories. Last week the Administration's national intelligence estimate confirmed for the first time in public that the People's Republic of China is developing three new long-range nuclear missiles that will target the United States, and that their new modern nuclear warheads will likely be influenced by classified American technology stolen from the United States through espionage. Our security problems are serious, and their costs are very real.”