U.S. Congress Divided on New East Coast Missile Defense System
Arirang News
May 10, 2012
A U.S. bill to construct a new East Coast missile defense site is becoming one of the most contentious issues at Congress.
The Republican-backed legislation contains an initiative to ready the country’s third missile defense system on the East Coast by 2016, adding to existing sites in California and Alaska on the West Coast.
It also includes a 1-hundred million U.S. dollar pre-construction review of the potential project.
Republicans say the increasing nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea highlight the need to build the new site, but Democrats are playing down the security threats, calling the estimated 4-billion dollar project “politically motivated.”
Democrat lawmakers are planning to take out the 1-hundred million dollars from the defense authorization bill at this week’s House Armed Services Committee markup.
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