[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 17480-17481]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              START TREATY

  Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, as I walked in the door to the Chamber I 
heard the Senator from Pennsylvania talk about the START Treaty. Let me 
say that it is such an important thing for this Congress to ratify. It 
is very important that be an urgent requirement for this Congress. The 
work that has been done on that I think is some excellent work. In the 
subcommittee which I chair dealing with energy and water and the 
funding of nuclear weapons and the Life Extension Programs for those 
weapons, we have added the funding that a number of people on the 
minority side felt was necessary to make certain we had confidence in 
the Life Extension Programs.
  So I do hope and I will join my colleague in saying I believe it is 
critically important for this Congress in the lameduck session to move 
on the START Treaty and the work that has been done and negotiated with 
the Russians to begin reducing the number of

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nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles. So I wanted to start by saying I 
appreciate what the Senator from Pennsylvania has said.

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