[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5201]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                     LEAVE STAR WARS TO THE MOVIES

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, 17 years and over $40 billion, one would 
hope that such an investment would be directed towards upgrading our 
schools, providing job training, or making payments on our national 
debt.
  Instead, this astronomical amount has been squandered on Star Wars. 
Now, they have changed the name to National Missile Defense, but it is 
the same thing. After 20 years of trying, it still does not work.
  Reagan started it to beat the Soviets. Now they say we need it to 
protect us from Iraq. But Timothy McVeigh was not in Iraq.
  The greatest threat to our country is having leadership that fails to 
recognize real threats. Instead of funding more government waste, 
deadly corporate welfare, and a missile build-up that jeopardizes the 
ABM Treaty, I suggest that we concentrate on our problems at ground 
zero and leave Star Wars to the movies.

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