Key Votes
H Amdt 1140 - Prohibits Reductions to Strategic Nuclear Arms Required by New START - Key Vote
National Key Votes
Henry Waxman Did Not Vote on this Amendment.
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Stages
Family
- HR 4310 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013
- H Amdt 1127 - Repeals Indefinite Military Detention Provisions
- H Amdt 1103 - Limits Funding for War in Afghanistan to the Withdrawal of U.S. Forces
- H Amdt 1140 - Prohibits Reductions to Strategic Nuclear Arms Required by New START
Issues
Stage Details
Amendment - Introduced (House) - May 18, 2012
Title: Prohibits Reductions to Strategic Nuclear Arms Required by New START
Amendment - Amendment Adopted (House) (238-162) - May 18, 2012(Key vote)
Title: Prohibits Reductions to Strategic Nuclear Arms Required by New START
Vote to adopt an amendment to HR 4310 that prohibits the use of funds to reduce, convert, or decommission any nuclear weapons until the President certifies that the Russian Federation is making similar reductions and is not developing or deploying certain nuclear weapons.
- Prohibits any funds appropriated to the Department of Defense from being used to reduce, convert, or decommission any “strategic delivery system” as required under the New START unless the President certifies to Congress all of the following:
- The Russian Federation must make a similar reduction, conversion, or decommission of its strategic delivery system; and
- The Russian Federation is not developing or deploying a strategic delivery system that is not covered under the treaty's limits and is capable of reaching the United States.
- Defines “strategic delivery system” as any of the following delivery platforms for nuclear weapons:
- Land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles;
- Submarine-launched ballistic missiles and associated submarines; or
- Nuclear-certified strategic bombers.
- Prohibits any funds appropriated to the Department of Defense from being used to reduce, convert, or decommission any strategic delivery system if such a reduction would eliminate any of the 3 types of strategic delivery systems.
Sponsors
- Dennis 'Denny' Rehberg (MT - R) (Out Of Office)
