feinstein and bond from the intelligence committee. we received the answers to several outstanding questions that senators had posed to the administrationt seven months, senators have formally submitted 900 questions to the obama administration and they have received thorough responses to every one of them. by mid september, our bipartisan work produced a resolution of ratification that we should all be able to support. our review process was not designed to cheerlead for the treaty. it was designed to probe every aspect of the treaty and to come up with a resolution that provided the senate's input and protected the prerogatives of the senate and indeed of individual senators' points of views. and that's what we have done. at 28 pages, the resolution of ratification, including 13 conditions, thee understandings, 10 declarations, addresses every serious pop i can that we have discussed over these months. if a senator was worried about the treaty and missile defense, then condition five, understanding one, and declarations one and two address those issues. if they were worried about modernization of our nuclear weapons complex as strateg