Opening Statement by Secretary of State Clinton Before the Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on the New START

Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—June 17, 2010.

SECRETARY CLINTON:Thank you very much, Chairman Levin, Senator McCain, members of the committee. It’s a great pleasure for me to return to testify before a committee that I was very honored to serve on. And we are here, today, Secretary Gates, Secretary Chu, and Admiral Mullen, and myself, because we share a strong belief that the new START treaty will make our country more secure and we urge…