Dick Lugar: “the Russians assured the world they were going to meet the deadline of the Chemical Weapons Convention. There's no…”

Diplomacy is not a luxury. It is essential to American national security, especially in an era of terrorism.

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

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.

Hungry people are desperate people and desperation can sow the seeds of radicalism.