Democrats Know Missile Defense

• By Rep. Ellen Tauscher
• Special to Roll Call
• May 16, 2008, 12:03 p.m.

To hear “anything and everything for missile defense” advocates bemoan funding for missile defense, which is at record high levels, you would think that Democrats do not support a strong missile defense program. The truth is quite the opposite. In fact, most of my Democratic colleagues voted for the National Missile Defense Act of 1999, announcing their commitment to deploy “an effective National Missile Defense system capable of defending the territory of the United States against limited ballistic missile attack.”