Dick Lugar: “I just join you in thanking our witnesses.”

Several members of Congress have already proposed legislation along these lines.

Congress has the ability to press the administration on its strategy to prevent a new Euro-missile race and increased instability in the absence of the INF Treaty.

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.

It is not the lack of food in the country but the problems of poverty and distribution and income.