Samuel Nunn

That dedication translated into far-reaching pay and benefit initiatives that have helped maintain the fundamental strength of the Armed Forces--its people.

On the RRW itself, if Congress gives a green light to this program in our current world environment. I believe that this will be misunderstood by our allies, exploited by our adversaries, complicate our work to prevent the spread and use…

We pay attention and push the Russians on questions of accounting fully for their chemical-weapons stockpiles.

The future of U.S./Russian cooperation on nonproliferation and the dismantlement of weapons of mass destruction is contingent also upon the continuation of the Nunn-Lugar Umbrella Agreement.

I want to start by saying thank you very much for the tremendous leadership that you have given.

The Navy JAG, Judge Advocate General, resigned over this. The head of Naval Investigative Service resigned over this. We held up nominations for months and months, and looked at every single record of those coming before us, as to their…

I believe the Senator said no one except Lieutenant Coughlin lost a job. That simply is not correct. The Secretary of Navy resigned in light of all of this, and then Admiral Dunleavy, who was the Chief of Naval Aviation, was forced to…

I could not identify with that broad a statement that the Senator from Maryland made. But I would readily agree that, based on what I have read, there certainly was not cooperation by a number of Navy officers. They did not cooperate with…

I would say we have a serious problem in the whole investigative services, not just for the Navy but for the other services. But we also have it not simply in sexual harassment cases, it is across the board. And I have talked at length…

The Senator from Tennessee understands when there is a Domenici-Nunn effort to put in an effective firewall it will require 60 votes, and I hope the Senator from Tennessee will look favorably on that effort. I know he would want to see the…

Can I give a hypothetical so that we can be clear? Maybe the Senator from New Mexico can answer this, also. Assuming--and I do not know the exact numbers--this 5-year so-called discretionary account, which includes defense and also…

So those of us who are concerned about the effect on defense of the Exon-Grassley amendment--which would have something like a 60-percent effect on defense, in that neighborhood depending on the allocations of the Appropriations…

I would like to pose a few questions relating to the Lott amendment, and also, of course, I am concerned about the effect on defense of the Exon-Grassley amendment which would be in the Budget Committee, and I believe that this amendment…

Then I would ask my friend from New Mexico, if also incorporated in the Lott amendment--if the Lott amendment has in it the cuts in the entitlement programs that were really continuations of existing reductions or restraints in entitlement…