Dick Lugar: “We have convinced our NATO allies... to put in a lot more troops and a lot more civilian assets.”

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.

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

I do share that problem very much.

In testimony we have had before this committee from the Gates Foundation, they emphasize, in addition to all we have talked about thus far, the whole problem of transportation; transportation both of crops once the farm gets beyond merely…