[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 22691]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   SCRAPPING NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE

  (Mr. SHIMKUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHIMKUS. Madam Speaker, the United States has an operating 
national missile defense to protect our west coast. Why would we leave 
our east coast undefended?
  In an ABC story today, it reads, ``The Obama administration believes 
Iran has now lied to inspectors three times. In addition to today's 
news there were revelations in 2002 about a different clandestine 
plant, and news discovered in 2007 that Iran had been working to design 
a nuclear warhead.''
  Our response should be: Don't trust, but defend.
  If the Obama administration believes that Iran has lied to the United 
States on nuclear weapons, why would we drop our defenses on the east 
coast?
  Our national government is constituted to protect our citizens. By 
scrapping national missile defense for our east coast, we fail in our 
job.

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