Ellen Tauscher: “this is right for the United States and this is right for this Congress. This is an opportunity for the bilateral…”

“this is right for the United States and this is right for this Congress. This is an opportunity for the bilateral relationships between the United States and Russia to improve, and I am here to say that I am very thankful to see that it is also a real sign of bipartisanship of this Congress where Democrats and Republicans, who up to yesterday had some disagreements about some language in this amendment, have come together in a very practical and common sense way to increase the opportunities for our national labs, two of which are in my district in northern California, to work to provide for the American people and frankly for the people of Russia and around the world much more opportunities for nonproliferation, much more opportunities for bilateral work and cooperation, and the ability for us to have agreements between our countries that are much more transparent and give a sense that we are very committed to working together and to turn aside the old adversarial relationships in the post-Cold War and move to a new time where we can be cooperative against the threats that we both share. I want to thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for being so cooperative in working together.”