Dick Lugar: “the amendment changes certain portions of the commodity programs and would increase nutrition spending. This is a full…”

I join you in welcoming back Secretary Burns and Tom Nides, both who are good friends of the committee.

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

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.

I rise today to address my colleagues on a number of issues important to the future of the United States and to offer some perspective on Senate service. In a few weeks, I will leave the Senate for new pursuits that will allow me to devote…