Dick Lugar: “We support a political solution led by Afghans.”

There is really a desire for something to be out there.

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.

We need to be indicating our leadership with regard to NATO, with regard to our European alliances.

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