Countermeasures will eventually challenge the NMD, just as they have challenged every other weapons system that has ever been deployed. Missile defense deployment requires enormous public commitment, not unlike our effort to put a man on the moon. . . . The American people have to know that if we deploy a national missile defense, it will work. A yes vote was to block another level of NMD testing. Bob Smith and Judd Gregg, both Republicans, voted yes.
Defenders say it imposes no major cost on taxpayers while safeguarding American jobs.
I believe the government has a role to play in stabilizing commodity prices, especially when the program operates at no net cost to the taxpayers. There is no doubt that the flow of pesticides into the Everglades is directly related to sugar cane growing and has had a direct impact on the ecology of that very fragile ecosystem, which is an American treasure, not just a Florida treasure. A yes vote was to continue the federal sugar program. Smith and Gregg voted no. A yes vote was to approve next year's Pentagon budget.