Kay Bailey Hutchison: “I know it doesn't seem like it, but this is going to be cheaper for the American taxpayer in the long run.”

I ask unanimous consent the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Texas.

there is a lot of buzzing going on around the Capitol today. Here we are on New Year's Eve, and so many of us had hoped we would have an agreement that would be really a big agreement, a long-term agreement that we would have liked to have…

Absolutely. We should reinforce our efforts to get Russia to comply with the treaty, and it is the position of the American Defense Department, State Department, that Russia is in violation.

It is one of NATO's prime focuses, the aggression of Russia in Ukraine, of course, Georgia as well.