Honorable John Kerry
United States Senator, Massachusetts, Democrat
Senator Kerry was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1982 to 1984. He chairs the Small Business Committee and is a member of the Science, Commerce, and Environment Committee (where he chairs the Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, and the Environment), the Finance Committee, and the Foreign Relations Committee. The following is from a May 2, 2001, statement on a national security strategy spoken on the Senate floor.Yesterday the President of the United States gave a very broad outline of a new national security strategy that moves away from the reliance…