Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"The New START treaty does cut back in some significant ways, I think, from the verification mechanisms in START I."

"the average age of our American NWS is greater than it's been, ever been before?"

"we have put the nuclear weapons program of the United States, NNSA which you direct, under budgetary pressure over the last years."

"There are certain reductions in our verification capacities under the proposed New START treaty from what they were under START."