Kay Bailey Hutchison: “I am concerned that unnecessary regulatory intervention here could risk stifling the remarkable levels of private…”

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.

These are people who have done the right thing. They have saved. They have tried to make sure they didn't need any kind of government handout. They have earned Social Security--and that is not a government handout--and they want to know…

I know there are those on my side who would also like to have a conference to talk about this. Could we have an indication as to the timeframe of the vote?

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…