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Department Of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010

Floor Speech

Date: Oct. 6, 2009
Location: Washington, D.C.
Issues: Defense

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Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, my amendment is simple. It prevents the Central Intelligence Agency from using any funds from the fiscal year 2010 Defense Appropriations bill to create or operate a center on climate change and national security.

To me, this center is redundant to activity already conducted by the CIA and other Federal agencies. There is no reason to create an additional center to do work already being done.

We don't need to duplicate the work of others. Leave the task of gathering and analyzing climate change information to the agencies that do that work. Let them pass that information on to the analysts at the CIA to incorporate it into their assessments.

The experts at the CIA should focus work on foreign intelligence gathering to prevent the next terrorist attack. That is what they are trained and equipped to do.

I urge adoption of the amendment.

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