We are talking about the lives of American citizens. As one who is from Oklahoma and can see what type of terrorist devastation can take place, and realizing that the devastation in Oklahoma was one-thousandth of the power of the smallest nuclear warhead known, it is a very scary thing. It is not a matter of a rogue nation learning how to make missiles to deliver the weapons of mass destruction that we know they have. It is a matter of just getting that technology and those systems from a country that already does. China is such a country.
China fully has missiles that can reach Washington, DC, from any place in the world.
We have no way in the world of knocking them down. I wish I were speaking last, because there are going to be some things said about the exorbitant costs of such a system. I hope that people will give consideration to this resolution. I think it is the most significant resolution we will be considering this year. I ask unanimous consent that three items pertaining to this matter be printed in the Record.