Washington DC (WBAP/KLIF News) – The US Senate has started hearings on former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s nomination to become the United States’ ambassador to NATO. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing Thursday morning.
Senator John Cornyn introduced Hutchison.
“Senator Hutchison has the experience, determination and tact required for our representative to Brussels,” Cornyn said.
Hutchison told the committee President Trump has reversed his position during his campaign that NATO is “obsolete.”
“NATO is not obsolete,” Hutchison said. “I think the president realized immediately it is an important and successful alliance.”
Hutchison described NATO as the most successful defiance alliance in world history.
Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) asked Hutchison how NATO should respond to reports that Russia has violated the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty. Hutchison said the US and its allies should develop a plan to convince Russia to comply with the treaty.
“But we are also beefing up defenses, a signal to Russia that we are serious about this treaty,” she says.
Hutchison says NATO has evolved and become a more important partnership to help the United States and its allies evolve during a time of terrorism and asymmetric warfare without one defined front.
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