Well, here is, I think, the most important thing. You invoked Ronald Reagan and you were saying how you shouldn't answer hypotheticals. I think here is what the blanket statement should be. The blanket statement should be, when it comes to…

The administration is saying the what-if is if this country is attacked by someone who is in compliance with the NPT, even if we're attacked with biological or chemical weapons, they would not use everything that we have in our arsenal…

I appreciate your leadership. We serve in the Armed Services Committee together so these are issues that we take up frequently. We held a hearing today on the Nuclear Posture Review and on the START Treaty, and there are a number of things…

It's the reality, though, of the issue of defending our Nation. And here this President has said, I won't take anything off the table. I will always do what's necessary to defend the United States. Period. That was last May. And then now…

Let me go back to that for a second. You said the administration is actually calling this an assurance policy, that they are providing assurances. But usually I think and the American people think of the word ``assurance'' being something…

Mr. President, I rise as a result of the resolution offered earlier today commemorating the tragic deaths of so many Polish leaders, especially the death of Tomasz Merta, who is the Minister of Culture in Poland. I worked with Tomasz Merta…

I appreciate the work Senator Warner is doing, along with Senator Hagan and Senator Udall. I came to the Senate 3\1/2\ years ago. I am personally not a lawyer, and I have, obviously, never sat as a judge, but I understand the custom here…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for no more than 5 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Congressman, you had also mentioned the the point of START and the issue of missile defense. I think one issue that people are concerned about that relates directly to this issue is any limitation on the United States' ability to defend…

We will have to see what comes out of the conference that the President has held. He was identifying the increase, that threat that we have for nuclear terrorism and nuclear proliferation issues. And certainly those are the correct issues…

I think it's also a false accomplishment. When the administration promotes this statement of a world without nuclear weapons, again, it's a human-value statement that I think everyone would wish to be true. But in translating it then to a…

Our country observed Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, this past Sunday, which recalls the global tragedy of state-sponsored systemic annihilation and persecution of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators as well as…

I thank Congressman Donnelly for joining us this evening, and Congressman Franks from Arizona, Congressman Donnelly from Indiana, Congresswoman Kaptur from Ohio. To all of our colleagues from across this country, and certainly from the…

I thank you for your words and compassion; and, in a similar vein, wish to place in the Record two letters that have been issued relating to this tragedy. One is from Stefan Wisniowski, who is the President of the Kresy-Siberia Foundation…

You know, Congressman Donnelly, when we think back to Poland's history during World War II, no nation lost a higher percentage of its people. Twenty percent of the population of Poland was eliminated. And the strength that it took to…

The gentleman's words are so eloquent. And I am reminded that in the resolution that was passed this afternoon here in the Congress, one of those who lost her life on that plane was Anna Walentynowicz, who's the former dock worker whose…

Congressman Franks, I want to thank you so very much. I know what a long day you have had. You began on C-SPAN this morning, I believe, and you have worked way over time today. And to join us here this evening and to pay tribute…

As we think about what happened in Poland, we also experienced during this period now a peaceful transition of government. According to their constitution, as the Speaker of their Parliament, Bronislaw Komorowski assumed the office of…