[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 45 (Tuesday, April 11, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H2020]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, the deployment of a national missile 
defense system will violate the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. It 
will spark a global nuclear arms race. It will weaken U.S. military by 
crowding out effective and cheaper means of defending the United 
States. More than 162 nations, including Russia and China, have signed 
on to a United Nations resolution for an international ban on weapons 
in space.
  Mr. Speaker, the United States must sign on to that U.N. resolution. 
The U.S. Space Command calls for expanded war fighting capabilities in 
outer space.
  The guiding words in this country ought to be ``thy will be done on 
Earth as it is in heaven,'' not ``war be done in heaven as it is on 
Earth.'' Let us work for peace on Earth, not war in space.

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