Cory Booker

Deciding to extend the New START Treaty is a decision made between the Treaty's Parties and is not subject to any deadline other than the expiration of the Treaty itself in February 2021.

Arms control treaties, such as the New START Treaty, can contribute to U.S. security by fostering transparency, establishing openness, and building confidence.

Any decision on extending the Treaty will, and should be, based on a realistic assessment of whether the New START Treaty remains in our national security interest, in light of overall Russian arms control behavior.

With INF, obviously, we have raised it that they are not in compliance, and we showed them example upon example of that.

But is there going to be some kind of formal follow-up to Helsinki?

There is obviously an importance in continuing that dialogue.

And so they are in violation clearly right now.

A collapse of the INF Treaty would open the doors, I would assume, towards further development of arms in terms of the intermediate range missiles and the negative repercussions.

The United States will continue to implement the New START Treaty and verify Russian compliance.

It remains in our interest to maintain strategic stability with Russia, and continue arms control agreements that meet U.S. and allied national interests.

We need to be creative and flexible in how we approach and manage our strategic competition with Russia.

We are not interested in writing blank checks for a nuclear arms race with Russia.

Diminishing, for example, the value of arms control and placing all faith in one-dimensional conceptions of increasing nuclear strength to bring the Russians and the Chinese to heel will result in a far more dangerous strategic environment.

Neither an unconstrained nuclear arms race nor blind faith in arms control agreements serve U.S. national security interests.

Today we know Russia is violating the Intermediate Range Nuclear Force Treaty.

For some reason, the fullness of their record is being hidden from the American public.

I guess the issue is for me, is that the document release that they've been bragging about how many thousands of pages they released when it comes to the body of his work, it really represents only about 10% of the totality of his…

It's written in the constitution. And to properly vet somebody, you should have the fullness of their record.

I am breaking the rules. I am breaking the sham rules.

I knowingly violated the rules that were put forth and I'm told that the committee confidential rules have knowing consequences.

Do you think it is legislation that would ask the State Department to designate or consider the designation of Russia as a state sponsor of terror is something we should pursue or not?

Senator Menendez and I have introduced legislation that would require the State Department to consider whether or not Russia should be named a state sponsor of terror.

We have seen the Russian Federation use of chemical or biological weapons in violation of international law.

NATO is one of the most, if not the most, important security alliance, architecture of our time.

The Congress should be involved in that decision.