What a F'er! [They're getting ready to vote on this.]
Does Levin not know what North Korea wants to do???
SA 3338. Mr. LEVIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2400, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Services, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
oops guess this would help.........
SA 3338. Mr. LEVIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2400, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Services, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle E of title X, add the following:
SEC. 1044. REALLOCATION OF FUNDS FOR GROUND-BASED MIDCOURSE DEFENSE PROGRAM INTERCEPTORS TO HOMELAND DEFENSE AND COMBATING TERRORISM.
(a) REDUCTION.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the total amount authorized to be appropriated by section 201(4) for research, development, test, and evaluation, Defense-wide activities, is hereby reduced by $515,500,000, with the amount of the reduction to be allocated to amounts available for the Missile Defense Agency for Ground-based Midcourse interceptors.
Not to mention the ChiComs. We need more, sooner, rather than less, later. The libs would be the first crying when their beloved San Fran is taken out that we 'ignored the threat' and some Republican 'didn't connect the dots'.
As for Levin, the few minutes I keep catching has him saying that the missile defense system is not proven, but he wants Star Trek like remote sensing of explosives on the high seas?