[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 60 (Thursday, April 29, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H2474-H2475]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  TOO MANY MISSIONS, TOO FEW RESOURCES

  (Mr. SCHAFFER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHAFFER. Madam Speaker, our military problem is simple: too many 
missions, too few resources. This administration adds new missions 
every year and then gives the Pentagon fewer resources to accomplish 
them. And then to add insult to injury, our own continent remains 
vulnerable to a ballistic missile attack. A national missile defense 
system remains unbuilt, sacrificed on the altar of arms control. 
Instead of an America safe from a missile attack, we have a contract, a 
piece of paper with a country that no longer exists, the Soviet Union. 
That piece of paper, known as the ABM Treaty, does not keep America 
safe. It cannot protect us from the evil designs of Osama bin Laden, 
Saddam Hussein and other world troublemakers who hate America and 
despise the very liberty we represent.
  Tyrannical regimes cannot abide the idea of liberty. The existence of 
liberty is a threat to the power of the despots, tyrants and dictators.
  Meanwhile, as the world becomes a dangerous place, our military is 
ignored and a national missile defense system is rejected. This is the 
path of dangerous folly.

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