Prepared Statement of the Honorable Warren B. Rudman before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, March 27, 2001

Mr. Chairman,
I am honored to be here today on behalf of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, which I co-chaired together with Senator Gary Hart. Senator Hart regrets that he cannot be with us today.
Sir, I want to get directly to the question that your letter of invitation posed to us: