W. Bush, pursued a Global Protection Against Limited Strikes system and, at one point, even had Boris Yeltsin's public support for jointly fielding such a capability.
Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, Wisconsin Democrat, steered through the House of Representatives an FY 1992-93 authorization bill that would bar further production of B-2 aircraft and eviscerate the scaled-down strategic defense program now known as the Global Protection Against Accidental and Limited Strikes system (GPALS).
By some accounts, he intends to cut as much as one-third to one-half from the Bush Administration's FY1994 request and impose unwarranted restrictions on the Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS) system.