Dick Lugar: “this committee has discussed, as you have in your opening statement, the possibility of passing to the Afghans control…”

Congress could condition funding to develop new missiles on receipt from the administration of a comprehensive military, economic, and diplomatic strategy to bring Russia back into compliance with the treaty.

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

The President has to want to get back into the discussions. At this point, there is not evidence that that is the case.

If we are really serious about yields and about a large change for the single woman farmer dealing with bad seed and bad fertilizer and bad transportation, this is why I asked the question.