HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.R. NO.

133

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

requesting that the congressional delegation of the state of hawaii work to deploy a national missile defense system.

 

 

WHEREAS, the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty was signed with a nation that no longer exists; and

WHEREAS, an increasing number of nations -- including North Korea -- either currently possess the capability to launch missile attacks against the United States or are working to achieve that capability; and

WHEREAS, in part because of advances in technology, the possibility that a missile bearing a weapon of mass destruction will be used against United States forces or interests is more likely today than it was throughout most of the Cold War; and

WHEREAS, terrorist groups, not just states, may have the means to obtain intercontinental ballistic missiles; and

WHEREAS, our nation still cannot proactively defend against missile attack; and

WHEREAS, the Cold War policy of "mutual assured destruction", assumed in arms control treaties, is not sufficient to deter terrorist missile attacks; and

WHEREAS, defending against an attack of any kind is the government's Constitutional obligation; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2003, that this body requests our elected Representatives and Senators in the United States Congress support and vote for all efforts to build and deploy a national missile defense system as rapidly as possible; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to members of Hawaii's Congressional delegation.

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title:

National Missile Defense System; request to support