John Ensign
The Public Record
We have to make such difficult--these are going to be painful--politically painful choices to make.
The debt that you are talking about, the interest on the debt, you have said that is unsustainable.
I rise today to speak on behalf of this amendment, which would clear up any ambiguity by adding the rail mobile definition of START I to the New START treaty. Specifically, my amendment would amend the protocol annex, part one, in terms…
Just to address the one point on the clarification in the resolution of ratification, it has been said that our resolution of ratification clarifies and we should not need this language in the definition. Here is the problem I have…
let me just read one paragraph from this: If Russia chose to develop and deploy rail-mobile ICBMs, such missiles and their launchers would be subject to the Treaty and its limitations. That is according to our State Department. Specific…
to wrap up this debate, let me address, first of all, the whole idea that changing this treaty in any way kills the treaty. Under the Constitution, certainly it is the President's role, the administration's role, to negotiate the treaties…
I rise today to talk about this New START treaty. I have some very serious concerns about it. I appreciate the work that has been done by my colleagues. This is an incredibly serious issue. I do not question anybody's motives, but I do…