Dick Lugar: “I think you paint way too drastic a picture as what would happen if we don't have the boots on the ground.”

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.

It seems to me to be really a safety net there.

In testimony we have had before this committee from the Gates Foundation, they emphasize, in addition to all we have talked about thus far, the whole problem of transportation; transportation both of crops once the farm gets beyond merely…