Mark Warner: “In reply to my colleague, I refer to a letter from the Secretary of State a year ago: Dear Mr. Chairman--addressed to…”

“In reply to my colleague, I refer to a letter from the Secretary of State a year ago: Dear Mr. Chairman--addressed to me--I am writing to express support for the President's 2004 budget request to fund the feasibility and cost study for the robust nuclear earth penetrator and to repeal the legislation that prohibits the United States from conducting research and development on low-yield nuclear weapons. I do not believe that these legislative steps will complicate our ongoing efforts with North Korea. And he goes on to explain the North Koreans will not be in any way deterred by this action of the United States to have a study.”