Dick Lugar: “I think you made an excellent suggestion with our colleagues John Warner and Dan Inouye.”

I believe that the verification provisions of New START are important, to begin with, leaving aside anything else.

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

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.

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