[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 138 (Thursday, September 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H8599-H8600]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                   LET US CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE B-2

  (Mr. DICKS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 

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  minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, today the House will take up the Defense 
appropriations bill, and one of the most important amendments will be 
on the B-2 bomber. Ever since 1980, when Secretary Harold Brown 
announced that we would build a stealth bomber, I have felt that this 
was the most important technological breakthrough in modern military 
history.
  In the Gulf war, the F-117, a stealth attack aircraft, was able to 
penetrate the most difficult targets and knock out surface-to-air 
missiles and radars without losing pilots and doing it in a matter of 
hours. Other airplanes that were not stealthy were unable to penetrate 
without a large number of support aircraft.
  The B-2 gives us a plane that can carry eight times as much as the F-
117 and five times as far. In a world where we are going to have a 
smaller U.S. military, having worldwide reach, being able to stop 
mobile divisions coming from North Korea, say, into South Korea or into 
the gulf, is a revolutionary capability. Let us continue to support the 
B-2.

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