[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 1151-1152]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        THE SMARTER APPROACH TO NUCLEAR EXPENDITURES (SANE) ACT

  (Mr. MARKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MARKEY. Madam Speaker, America's nuclear weapons budget is locked 
into a Cold War time machine. It doesn't reflect our 21st century 
security needs. It makes no sense. It is insane. It's insane to spend 
$10 billion

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building new plants to make uranium and plutonium for new nuclear bombs 
when we're cutting our nuclear arsenal and the plants we have now work 
just fine. It's insane that we're going to spend $84 billion for up to 
14 new nuclear submarines when just one submarine with 96 nuclear bombs 
on board can blow up every major city in Iran, China, and North Korea.
  It's an insane strategy, but it's America's current plan. And that's 
why we need a SANE approach to our nuclear weapons budget. Today, I am 
introducing the SANE Act--the Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures 
Act--with 34 of my colleagues. The SANE Act cuts $100 billion in 
spending over the next 10 years on outdated, wasteful nuclear weapons 
programs over the next 10 years.
  Let's cut new nuclear weapons, not the poor, the sick, the children, 
and the elderly of our country. Support and cosponsor the SANE Act.

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