The fiscal year 2000 omnibus appropriations bill approved by the Senate last Saturday calls for the creation of a new State Department position for arms control verification and compliance. For nearly a year, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-NC) has been battling the Clinton administration over how arms control oversight would be carried out in the State Department. It is Helms' language in the FY-00 State Department authorization bill, which is a part of the omnibus bill, that...