The Hill News

This morning, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took to the podium with one message: “Our national security is at risk.”  The Senate, she said, cannot afford to delay on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) any longer.

“When the Senate returns they must act,” she urged.  New START, she said, “will advance our national security and provide stability and predictability between the world’s two leading nuclear powers.”

What prompted Secretary Clinton’s passionate warning? Deep concern that partisan politics and parochialism will trump national security interests in an election year.

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