Dick Lugar: “We face a current dependence on oil, a large percentage of which is controlled by hostile or unstable regimes…”

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.

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

Hungry people are desperate people and desperation can sow the seeds of radicalism.

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