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House Rejects Attempt To Nix Space-Based Missile Defense

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, July 27th, 2017

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House Rejects Attempt To Nix Space-Based Missile Defense

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The House has defeated by voice vote a proposal to block funding for a new space-based missile defense system.The proposed amendment to the fiscal year 2018 defense appropriations bill would have denied money needed to carry out a provision in the House-passed FY 2018 defense authorization bill that would direct the Missile Defense Agency to begin developing a space-based system for intercepting ballistic missiles. Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.), who offered the amendment July 27, argued that a space-based system could cost hundreds…

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