Honorable Jeff Sessions
U.S. Senator, Alabama, Republican
Senator Sessions was first elected to the U.S. Senate in November 1996. He serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee. The following is excerpted from Senator Sessions’s May 14, 2010, statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate. I rise today to address some very important concerns that arise in my mind in the evaluation of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) that was submitted to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification. I do not believe that the Senate must ratify this treaty, as some of my colleagues suggest. But rather, I begin with the proposition that…
