I strongly criticized the Trump Administration's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement not only because it ignored overwhelming scientific evidence but also because it has undermined our credibility on the world stage and…

I believe that our priority should be to support broader multilateral negotiations with Russia and China that bring some of these new systems into an arms control agreement while supporting the administration's efforts to negotiate on an…

Extending New START is important.

Today's hearing is one of the more important hearings that we can have, and it is important to have it at this juncture.

The modernization effort that has been mentioned is one that will be expensive.

This is, indeed, an issue that is an existential threat, much as it was years ago.

There was great concern about the way that the U.S. approached the INF Treaty and backing away from it.

If we are to arrest the decline in American global leadership, this Congress must reassert itself.

While none of these agreements were perfect, and both sides have continued to develop new and more powerful weapons, our arms control regimes have kept us on the brink of mutually assured destruction.

Many of us, including the then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, believed we were on the brink of a nuclear war.

Even as a very young child, I clearly remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, as do many of my colleagues.

If we are to achieve successful global nuclear arms control, we must find a way to complete a broader, multilateral nuclear arms control agreement that includes Russia and China.