[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11619]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



               THE COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, my colleague who just spoke on the Senate 
floor is the chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee. This is the 
educational arm of the Democratic Senators. He has done an outstanding 
job during his 6 months as chairman of the Policy Committee, hoping to 
educate not only Democrats but Republicans as to some of our 
responsibilities. The statement that was just made by the chairman of 
the committee, the Senator from North Dakota, is certainly appropriate.
  I agree in every way. The fact is, it is very important that we do 
everything we can to ratify this treaty, and also the Nunn-Lugar money 
has been some of the money that has been most well spent. I do not know 
of any money we have spent in recent years that has done more good than 
that money spent to make sure the former Soviet Union is helped to 
retire some of their weapons of mass destruction. It has been a
cooperative agreement that has worked well for the United States and 
worked well for Russia. So I compliment and applaud my friend, the 
Senator from North Dakota.

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