House Proceeding 04-14-10 on Apr 14th, 2010 :: 1:37:25 to 1:39:50
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1:37:22 to 1:37:43( Edit History Discussion )

Rob Bishop: there was going to be a treaty and reagan walked away, he said i'm not goi to agree to that because i'm going to protect my people with missile defense. and here we are going back in history and now we are going to stop this missile defense. and what you're talking about, congressman, is a part of one of the supplier base that has to be there to do missile defense.

1:37:25 to 1:39:50( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Rob Bishop

1:37:44 to 1:38:05( Edit History Discussion )

Rob Bishop: why are we going to dismantle that? it just doesn't make sense. mr. bishop: i agree totally with the gentleman from missouri who is such a leader on the armed services committee. and part of the problem -- nuclear power notwithstanding, we are talking about the overall defense of this country and in

1:38:06 to 1:38:27( Edit History Discussion )

Rob Bishop: area after area, we tend to be weakening our position. i agree with the gentleman that we should not have scaled back in our laser technology. i agree definitely last year, we made a mistake when we cut the kinetic energy intercourse program, the mobile rockets aimed to stop missiles coming at us. i agree we made a mistake when

1:38:28 to 1:38:48( Edit History Discussion )

Rob Bishop: we limited the amount of ground-based missiles to go, we simply stopped it, artificially ash temporarily. and that puts us ia weaker situation. i'm concerned about what they are talking about the constellation program, it's not

1:38:49 to 1:39:10( Edit History Discussion )

Rob Bishop: just about the manned space flights but the impact it has on the industrial base that proper hibts us from ever changing course -- pro hibts us from ever changing course. it is part and parcel in what is a calf leer approach to the defense of this country that time after time after time

1:39:11 to 1:39:31( Edit History Discussion )

Rob Bishop: overlooks the details and how those details react and puts us in a more vulnerable situation. once again, no one will ever attack us because we are t strong. they could attack us because we have failed to bring a bag of nails into battle with us. mr. akin: i appreciate your perspective, gentleman, and the

1:39:32 to 1:39:50( Edit History Discussion )

Rob Bishop: little historic lesson on the bag of nails. getting so grandiose and all we are going to do is provide a world without nuclear weapons. what they should do is invest in a time machine and go back in history if they want a world