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Turner Predicts Congress Will OK East Coast Missile Site

Friday, June 8th, 2012

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A lawmaker behind the push for a missile defense site on the U.S. East Coast predicted yesterday congressional opposition will die down as more nations seek to build up missile stockpiles. Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) told a Capitol Hill crowd yesterday that “a number of people across the aisle” have told him in confidence that they support the proposal he put in the House-passed defense authorization bill to plan for ground-based interceptors (GBIs) on the eastern seaboard. “I believe that…

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