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While the administration is taking its time to make sure the new START agreement is a strong treaty that advances our national security interests, some conservatives have preemptively weighed in on the substance of the agreement.  There’s the minor detail that negotiations haven’t actually wrapped up yet and the text hasn’t been released, but that hasn’t stopped Jon Kyl & Co. from latching onto baseless speculations that fit within their political agendas. 

Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry, noted during his interview with The Cable, "The administration is appropriately holding out for what we need to make the treaty verifiable and that will help it pass." (This, as Max Bergmann points out is pretty annoying, considering negotiators now have to cater certain boisterous politicians who have insisted on politicizing our national security.)

While U.S. negotiators remain steadfast, however, speculations regarding Josh Rogin’s story on START and the Senate calendar have created quite a stir. Unfortunately, the key addendum to this story was buried at the bottom and likely overlooked. 

Aware that the new START constitutes a national security imperative, a spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, announced last week:

 "Senator Reid has long been expecting to receive and consider the START treaty during the 2010 calendar year. We have seen nothing to this point that would alter this expectation.  Arms control treaties have always been handled in a bipartisan manner and, once the Senate receives all the details on this particular treaty, Senator Reid is confident this tradition, which is critical to our national security, will continue."

In a separate interview, Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Robert Casey, Jr. shared his take on the new START agreement with Rogin, "I think we can do it and I think we should," Casey said. "Often in Washington the pronouncement of what's dead and what's alive is fiction. I think we can pass it and I think we should try to pass it."

While the junior Senator from Arizona hasn’t actually said he plans to vote against the treaty, the spectacle he has created in the interim has left a lot to be desired…namely, facts. Fortunately, Kyl is in the minority and the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee understands the importance of the new treaty.  
 

Richard Lugar, R-IN, the ranking Republican for the Senate Foreign Relations committee told The Cable, "I remain hopeful that it will be signed and that there will be time assigned on the floor for debate and a vote this year," said Lugar, who added he would support the treaty "unless there are extraordinary changes beyond those that I've heard about."

If Kyl wants to set himself up against Senator Lugar, fine by me—considering Lugar’s established record on arms control, I’m guessing it would be quite the show, or at least one that’s finally worth watching. 

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