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that would be effective against regional threats, against limited missile launches, against limited atta attack. so it appears to me that while the russians have built into this treaty and into the preamble the perfect argument for withdrawal, and they've already said it constitutes exceptional circumstances under their interpretation of article 14, the united states has not responded with a negative but, rather, with a statement that says, don't worry. mr. president, might i inquire, is the original 30 minutes which this side was allotted consumed? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona, there is no time limitation right now because we have no one following, so you're more than -- mr. kyl: met m kyl: let me do ti do see senator casey on the floor and i -- senator kerry may have something more to say. let me try to sum up what i'm saying about missile defense, though there is much more to talk about here and this will very definitely be 9 subject of -- be the subject of maybe even the first amendment that is offered on our side. this cannot -- this cannot -- well, i think we nee

c they didn't want a missile atta. defense system of the board.thnt even though they had said it a would have only minimal supportn against the massive number of missiles that they had it onlygt put 10i think in poland. puten but they objected the bush administration stood firm the got the last treaty by standing firm and the assistance from secretary of defense for policy ewuglas fifer wrote an article n in one of the major newspapers about this, i think "the wallhat street journal," saying that they said no eventually thesedn russians agreed to say it used o an important issue. i just want to share this with i my colleagues who i know believes so deeply we have to ol he told the russians we don't have to have a treaty with you. we other nations who have nuclear weapons. treaty, if it's not a good treaty we are not coming to agree to it. with the russians agreed, and he said the very same insistences, positions that they asserted ata that time i guess the bushn,t administration that they sand rejected or demands acqui

robert creely, who you will also hear from later today, also practiced atta law firm. from october 1973 to august 1984, judge porteous also served as an assistant district attorney in jefferson parish, louisiana. in august 1984 judge porteous was elected and served as a state district court judge on the 24th judicial district court for jefferson parish, louisiana, where he served as a state judge from august 1984 to october 28, 1994. while a state judge, amato and creely regularly and frequently took him to lunch and provided and paid for other entertainment for judge porteous. judge porteous virtually never paid for any lunches he attended with creely or amato. let me first start off by talking about judge porteous' cure rate to haveship scheme with attorneys creely and amato. as mr. schiff stated, at some point after he became a state judge, judge porteous began to request money from robert creely. the evidence will show that judge porteous claimed he needed money for personal reasons such as tuition, car ree pairs or home repairs. creely would give him the monies as

that would be effective against regional threats, against limited missile launches, against limited atta attack. so it appears to me that while the russians have built into this treaty and into the preamble the perfect argument for withdrawal, and they've already said it constitutes exceptional circumstances under their interpretation of article 14, the united states has not responded with a negative but, rather, with a statement that says, don't worry. mr. president, might i inquire, is the original 30 minutes which this side was allotted consumed? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona, there is no time limitation right now because we have no one following, so you're more than -- mr. kyl: met m kyl: let me do ti do see senator casey on the floor and i -- senator kerry may have something more to say. let me try to sum up what i'm saying about missile defense, though there is much more to talk about here and this will very definitely be 9 subject of -- be the subject of maybe even the first amendment that is offered on our side. this cannot -- this cannot -- well, i think we nee