NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996 (Senate - September 06, 1995)
AMENDMENT NO. 2425
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the hour of 9:30 has arrived and the question now is on the Nunn amendment.
Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, the distinguished Senator from Oklahoma desires about 2 minutes. I suggest he be given 2 minutes.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? The Chair hears none, and the Senator from Oklahoma is recognized.
Mr. INHOFE. I thank the Senator from South Carolina.
During the course of this recess, I averaged about seven events a day throughout the State of Oklahoma, and during that time I did not let an opportunity go by without letting the people of Oklahoma know how serious the threat of missile attack will be to the United States within just a very few years, probably as early as the year 2000.
I also let them know that we do not have a national missile defense system, and probably the most significant thing we will do is to keep this system going so that when we have a friendlier environment in the White House we can have this system ready to be deployed by the year 2000 or 2001.
We know the threat that exists from North Korea right now. We know the threats that were articulated by Jim Woolsey, the chief security adviser to the President, when he said that we know of between 20 and 25 nations that are working on weapons of mass destruction and the missile means of delivering those weapons.
I know the negotiators worked very hard, and I commend the work product. However, I am a little disappointed it did not come out stronger. I intend to support the missile defense portion of this bill, but I think when we used the words that we want to deploy a national missile defense system and they changed it to `develop for deployment,' that is too weak. I think that when we are calling for highly effective missile defenses that we now have changed to `affordable,' I suggest to you, Mr. President, there is nothing that is more significant going on right now than preparing for a national missile defense system.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's 2 minutes have expired.
The question is on agreeing to the Nunn amendment No. 2425. The yeas and nays have been ordered. The clerk will call the roll.
The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
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Mr. LOTT. I announce that the Senator from Alaska [Mr. Murkowski] is necessarily absent.
Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Hawaii [Mr. Akaka] is absent because of attending a funeral.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber who desire to vote?
The result was announced--yeas 85, nays 13, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 398 Leg.
- Abraham
- Ashcroft
- Baucus
- Bennett
- Biden
- Bingaman
- Bond
- Breaux
- Brown
- Bryan
- Bumpers
- Burns
- Byrd
- Campbell
- Chafee
- Coats
- Cochran
- Cohen
- Conrad
- Coverdell
- Craig
- D'Amato
- Daschle
- DeWine
- Dodd
- Dole
- Domenici
- Exon
- Faircloth
- Feinstein
- Ford
- Frist
- Glenn
- Gorton
- Graham
- Gramm
- Grams
- Grassley
- Gregg
- Hatch
- Hatfield
- Heflin
- Helms
- Hollings
- Hutchison
- Inhofe
- Inouye
- Jeffords
- Johnston
- Kassebaum
- Kempthorne
- Kennedy
- Kerrey
- Kerry
- Kohl
- Kyl
- Levin
- Lieberman
- Lott
- Lugar
- Mack
- McCain
- McConnell
- Mikulski
- Murray
- Nickles
- Nunn
- Packwood
- Pressler
- Pryor
- Reid
- Robb
- Rockefeller
- Roth
- Santorum
- Sarbanes
- Shelby
- Simpson
- Snowe
- Specter
- Stevens
- Thomas
- Thompson
- Thurmond
- Warner
- Boxer
- Bradley
- Dorgan
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