Honorable Robert C. Smith
United States Senator, New Hampshire, Republican
Senator Smith was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1990.He represented the First District of New Hampshire in the U.S.House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. He serves on the ArmedServices Committee and as Chairman of the Strategic Forces Subcommitteewithin that committee. He chairs the Ethics Committee and serveson the Environment and Public Works Committee and the GovernmentalAffairs Committee. The following statement is from the Senatefloor debate of March 17, 1998, on Protocols to the North AtlanticTreaty of 1949 on Accession of Poland, Hungary, and the CzechRepublic.The Senate now is about to engage in a great debate, a debatethat…