Zach Nunn: “I think it is essential to work out the troubling language. There are several paragraphs that are indeed troubling here.…”

“I think it is essential to work out the troubling language. There are several paragraphs that are indeed troubling here. I say that with this background: On June 27, I proposed an amendment on the floor and worked with Senator McCain and, as I recall, Senator Cohen and others in offering the amendment posing a substantial and very important series of questions to the administration, to the President, to answer regarding NATO enlargement. Now, Mr. President, I recall once coming in on the floor when I was a much younger Senator and watching the esteemed Senator from Minnesota, Senator Humphrey, propose a series of questions to the floor manager of the bill, and without ever pausing, and I think without realizing it, having said that he had to have the answer to these questions before he voted on the measure that was pending, he proceeded to answer his own questions and to come out on one side of the issue in a very decisive way. He answered his own questions, and nobody else intervened, and he solved his own problem. Mr. President, I don't think we ought to do that regarding the questions that have been posed in a serious way.”