Dick Lugar: “I believe we are entering a period of renaissance with the Philippines.”

I join you in welcoming back Secretary Burns and Tom Nides, both who are good friends of the committee.

Congress has the ability to press the administration on its strategy to prevent a new Euro-missile race and increased instability in the absence of the INF Treaty.

I believe that the verification provisions of New START are important, to begin with, leaving aside anything else.

The balancing of trade in food by the international trading system is a major factor in hunger, and I am delighted you are working on it.