mr. larsson. >> mr. chairman, thank you. and thank you very much. and i would just note that in this conversation we're having here, there was, in fact, a recognition that this amendment has an additional cost beyond what we have otherwise -- what we are otherwise debating today for the overall budget. and yet, not accounted for and how to pay for that. i am not -- not certain under committee rules whether that is a violation of committee rules, but i would -- i would address that general question to the full committee and the staff and the chairman and ranking member as we move along. the second point, i just want to re-emphasize is that there is a study that exists that we approved last year to do a -- for the mda to report back to us within a year about space-based interceptors. not a tuddy i supported but it is, in fact, the law. and that year is not up. and so we are jumping ahead of ourselves. we are presuming an answer to the study by allowing the existing version of the bill to move forward. i merely am suggesting that we remove what the sub