Bob Casey

The United States would have far less access to and knowledge about Russian forces without any treaty mandated monitoring provisions in place.

The goal--or one of the main goals is to increase confidence that both parties are complying with the treaty.

What happens if nuclear weapons are used? If we woke up one morning and found that 500,000 people had been killed...

Once nuclear weapons are used, we will be driven to take global measures to prevent it from happening again.

With the classical notion of deterrence, there are consequences before which an aggressor would recoil. In the world of suicide bombers, that calculation does not compute in any comparable way.

The treaty does not infringe on the flexibility we need to maintain our forces, including bombers, submarines, and missiles, in a way that best serves our national security interests.

The treaty does not compromise the nuclear force levels we need to protect ourselves and our allies.

The treaty will not constrain the United States from deploying the most effective missile defenses possible, nor impose additional costs or barriers on these defenses.

The New START agreement does not restrict our ability to develop and deploy prompt conventional strike capabilities that could attack targets anywhere on the globe in an hour or less.

The New START Treaty does not inhibit any of these plans or programs.

It imposes no limits on further development of missile defenses.

We can do that with the collective energies of all the States.

We want to thank our witnesses for your testimony and your work and your scholarship.

I have thought about for a long time is, how do teachers during the school year get an accurate assessment of each of their students.

I found that people, whether they were mostly in the context of teachers and administrators, but others as well--I found that whenever the topic came up, people were even-tempered. They were always mad.

Those who say, 'Oh, gee, laws don't work,' that's not true.

If it means changing policy, we need to do that. If it means amending or adjusting, we've got to do that.

It is important that we have hearings, like this and others, to change policy and to try to do our best to be responsive to this tragedy.

What should the U.S. Senate do, and the Administration do, in the next 6 months, to make sure that this kind of tragedy does not happen or we substantially reduce the likelihood that something like this would happen again?

I'd like to thank Chairman Harkin and Senators Murkowski, Brown, Casey, and Bennet for their leadership on efforts to improve the nutritional content of school meals provided by the Federal school lunch program.

The Obama administration has rightly prioritized food security.

This can be a very positive development for these great institutions and the students and professors.

This simple fact should serve as a galvanizing call to action.

We need some help from outside, even from those who have been on Capitol Hill for a while.

Thank you both for your service.