Recommending that Congress not provide funds for fiscal year 2005 for the deployment of ground-based, strategic, mid-course, ballistic missile defense system components that have not met operational testing requirements and, instead, provide needed funding for programs designed to keep America's ports secure from terrorist attacks.

Action history

1. 2004-05-25Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
2. 2004-05-18Sponsor introductory remarks on measure.
3. 2004-05-18Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
4. 2004-05-17Introduced in House
5. 2004-05-17Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
6. 2004-05-17Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.