Dick Lugar: “This is an oversimplification, but some analysts have indicated that as oil and natural gas increased in price…”

I would like to recognize Senator Vitter on our side. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana.

Yes, I do share that problem very much.

Congress, via the power of the purse, also has the ability to prevent the administration from taking steps, such as testing and fielding new and unnecessary land-based intermediate-range missile systems.

Well, in addition to the comments that have been made about better cohesion with our European allies, it seems to me we need to be thinking more about missile defense than about really the ways in which we negate the value of these…