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Business/Financial

Rep. Tauscher Suggests Slashing Ground-based Missile Defense, Others, In Letter To Pentagon Leader

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Monday, March 2nd, 2009

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The United States should cut funding for the Ground-based Missile Defense program that aims to take down long-range incoming enemy missiles, focusing instead of systems that counter short- and medium-range enemy weapons, a powerful and prominent congressional leader argued. Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), who chairs the House Armed Services Committee strategic forces subcommittee, stated her position in a letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Her letter appeared as the Obama administration is putting finishing touches on its federal government…

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