the first order of business in this return to session is for us to pass an appropriations bill to keep the government open on October 1. I know that people are physically at work in order to make that a reality. I was on the floor…

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The Haqqani Network, as you point out, has had too much freedom in that country.

We are going to probably vote a continuing resolution that will just continue current policy.

If we could have a brief response. Mr. Grenier, we will start with you.

It may very well give an opportunity, looking a little bit longer term, to get a much better control over what is happening in India and Pakistan in regards to their nuclear programs.

We did not think we had all the information we needed, and I think this hearing will help us to fill in some of those blanks.

The drone strikes are very important. Do not get me wrong. And my question is how helpful have the Pakistanis been in regards to that.

But as you point out, we have major concerns about that relationship. They seem to be very selective in the terrorist organizations that they go against.

This is very challenging, the relationship with Pakistan. It is one of our strategic partners in our counterterrorism in a very dangerous part of the world.

This Congress is not going to take any definitive actions in regards to Pakistan before the elections.

What do we get out of their counterterrorism? Remind me. Other than fighting the terrorists in their own country, what are we getting from them?

I do not look at Article 1 or 2. I look at it as working together.

This is really about one thing, regardless of who is in--President, regardless of who is chairman of the committee, regardless of who is serving.

This is not a new subject. This is not a new interpretation by an administration.

What I am concerned about is that the administration is taking steps that possibly... could take that policy and turn it into something that is binding.

It is unlikely that this treaty is going to go into effect anytime in the near future.

It is also, I believe, a safe statement to say that it is in our national security interest to preserve and expand the moratorium on nuclear testing.

We do not have any proposed language that the administration is seeking in regards to United Nations actions.

You and I both agree that that action should not compromise the prerogatives of the United States Congress or the United States Senate.

I do not think there has been a year that has gone by, whether there was a Republican Governor or a Democratic Governor, or Republican President or a Democratic President, that I did not have problems with the prerogatives taken by the…

There is a concern--I think it is a legitimate concern--about going to the U.N. Security Council and bypassing the Senate.

I think exercising our prerogatives would be something that we should do, and figure out a way to get that done.

The Congress can take action in one minute. Nothing prevents us legally from doing that.

Since 1992, the United States policy has been to impose a moratorium on nuclear explosive testing.