Dick Lugar: “If that was the course the United States wanted to take, we would need to ensure that our allies were in sync with us…”

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

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

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…

Congress could condition funding to develop new missiles on receipt from the administration of a comprehensive military, economic, and diplomatic strategy to bring Russia back into compliance with the treaty.