[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 28 (Wednesday, March 13, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H837]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               IMPORTANCE OF FAKED MISSILE DEFENSE TESTS

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, the GAO recently released a report 
outlining the ways in which the Pentagon and its contractors fudged the 
results of a missile defense test in 1997. The report found that 
missile test results were fabricated by excluding negative test data, 
ignoring sensor malfunctions, and by delaying the disclosure of 
undeniable errors. All this is now irrelevant, the Pentagon concludes, 
because the system used in that test has not been used in 4 years.
  Well, Mr. Speaker, I disagree. The fact that these test books were 
cooked could not be more important. The President has asked Congress to 
match last year's $8 billion-plus missile defense appropriation and has 
formally issued his intention for the United States to pull out of the 
ABM treaty. Yet the Pentagon recently canceled the supposedly important 
Navy missile defense system due to cost overruns of 65 percent, and 
more recent missile defense tests were found to have been fixed by the 
use of GPS location beacons.
  Mr. Speaker, the CBO has estimated that a working missile defense 
system will cost another $64 billion by 2015, and the United States has 
been working on this since World War II and it still does not work. We 
do not need to give the Pentagon one more dollar.

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