WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Sen. Michael Bennet issued the following press release:
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Senator Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the First Island Chain Deterrence Act. This legislation would require the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan and independent agency that works for Congress, to produce a report on how delays of U.S. weapons sales to Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines affect the Department of Defense's (DoD) ability to build, posture, and sustain deterrence along the First Island Chain, the chain of archipelagos extending from the Kuril Islands and Japan, through the Ry...