Sam Brownback: “I am a cosponsor of the Feinstein amendment. Senator Feinstein and I spoke yesterday about this issue and the need to…”

“I am a cosponsor of the Feinstein amendment. Senator Feinstein and I spoke yesterday about this issue and the need to speak and to act quickly by the United States in a statement of condemnation towards India, of support towards Pakistan, to encourage the Pakistanis to stand strong as a nation and not to ignite and set forth a nuclear weapon and escalate this chain reaction. We put forward this resolution of which I am a cosponsor. I believe it is the right and appropriate step for us. She has offered it, and she has been a peacemaker and a peacekeeper for these countries, had their representatives in her home to try to get the Ambassadors of these two nations to speak together and to not further proliferate but, rather, to seek peace. And all of that to no avail as far as the action that the Indian Government has taken this week. We had, yesterday, a hearing in my subcommittee that Senator Feinstein attended where we heard of the great problems we are facing on this entire subcontinent. Indeed, this is probably the most difficult area of the world today and the most problematic, and the most probable flash point that the world is facing today with the use of nuclear weapons.”