A lawmaker who helps craft the Pentagon budget called yesterday for boosting national missile defense spending and implanting missile interceptors on the East Coast of the United States. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-Calif.), whose panel will start crafting the Pentagon policy bill next month, advocated for more missile defenses for protecting the homeland at a Washington conference yesterday, putting him at odds with his Democratic counterpart in the Senate. Addressing the U.S. Missile Defense Conference sponsored…
McKeon Wants To Boost National Missile Defense, Add East Coast Site
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