the Senate has now turned its attention to the conference report on the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions Accountability and Divestment Act of 2010. It is a very significant piece of legislation, an excellent conference report that holds some…

In some sense, my question is, how do you transfer that concern down the chain of command so that individual members of your Services feel that they can go for help for a mental problem, just like you go for help if your leg is bothering…

This suggests a broader societal problem.

I think the stigma issue is one that's going to be very, very difficult to overcome.

So, to us, as a leadership issue. We focus on operational stress control and management.

Every suicide is a tragedy, and we want to prevent them all.

We are so grateful to our military personnel. They serve with such honor and capability and sacrifice.

Mr. Chairman, I know my time's up. I leave it to you. I don't want to intrude on Senator Hagan's time.

Look, we all wish that we lived in a world without nuclear weapons, but wishing does not make it so.

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

I hear you, and I'd say that there are a group of us in both parties who probably would like to continue this discussion with you in the hope that--fiscal year 2012 is the next year, obviously.

It would be hard to explain to people why we did not stop it.

the risk of allowing someone on the watchlist to board a plane without being subjected to at least a secondary physical screening for a bomb or weapons concealed or anything else is really intolerable.

Other nations have gone in other directions in the development of their nuclear weapons stockpiles, correct?

I think you'll hear from all of us that we think this treaty continues the tradition that other treaties have exemplified of making it possible for us to have an understanding with, and legally binding agreements with, the Russians that…

I hope to be able to vote to ratify the New START treaty, but for me, and I think for a lot of members of the Senate, there are two lines of questions that we need to have answered to give us that level of comfort.

I hope you will push that envelope a little bit, at least to explore it.

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

to me it was quite valuable to us in terms of assessing the capacity of the Russian missiles, which is important for our national security.

if this New START is ratified, it will be a small step forward for mankind, but a long way, I'm sure you'd agree, from the dream that people harbor of having a nuclear-free world.

today I am introducing legislation, along with my friend and colleague, the senior Senator from Connecticut, Mr. Dodd, that will strengthen the content knowledge and instructional skills of our present K-12 teacher workforce and thus…

I hope you will make that a priority.

I see this treaty as a vehicle to finally be able to get what we need in the way of modernization.

So that's part of the pressure on us to make the kinds of investments that we're talking about and that the four of you have asked for, correct?

I have had particular concern about the reduction and what is required under the treaty for telemetry exchanges.