Chuck Hagel: “I also wish to commend my friend, the senior Senator from Mississippi, for reintroducing his defense initiative. Missile…”

“I also wish to commend my friend, the senior Senator from Mississippi, for reintroducing his defense initiative. Missile defense is as critical a challenge as this country faces, not just for the short term, but for the long term, and I have been a strong proponent of what Senator Cochran is proposing. I wish, again, to be a cosponsor of that measure.”