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No Hill Consensus On East Coast Missile Site

Julie Samuel

Friday, June 1st, 2012

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As the Pentagon casts a wary eye on a House proposal for a new missile-defense site on the U.S. East Coast, lawmakers are giving the plan mixed reviews. The version of the fiscal year 2013 defense authorization bill the Republican-controlled House passed May 18 authorizes $100 million for planning an East Coast site after the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) crafts a proposal for it, and also requires the Pentagon to produce an environmental-impact statement on possible locations. Yet Congress is far…

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