Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2023

3.0.0 1186 2025-12-05T08:23:40Z 2025-12-05T08:23:40Z Senate S S 2023-04-18 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1186 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-04-18T21:50:58Z Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2023 118 669 HR 2023-01-31 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Identical bill CRS 2023-04-18 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. IntroReferral 2023-04-18 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. N M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2023-04-18 True W000817 Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] Elizabeth Warren D MA A. 2023-04-18 True M001169 Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT] Christopher Murphy D CT S. 2023-04-18 True V000128 Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] Chris Van Hollen D MD 2023-04-18 True S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN 2023-04-18 True W000800 Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] Peter Welch D VT 2023-04-18 True S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2023-04-18 True W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR 2024-03-21 False International Affairs Congressional-executive branch relations 2025-09-10T20:26:17Z Military command and structure 2025-09-10T20:26:17Z Military operations and strategy 2025-09-10T20:26:17Z Nuclear weapons 2025-09-10T20:26:17Z Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents 2025-09-10T20:26:17Z War and emergency powers 2025-09-10T20:26:17Z International Affairs 2023-04-26T14:15:17Z

00 2023-04-18 Introduced in Senate 2024-02-26T15:41:12Z Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2023 This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to conduct a first-use nuclear strike unless Congress expressly authorizes such a strike pursuant to a declaration of war. A first-use nuclear strike is an attack using nuclear weapons against an enemy that did not first launch a nuclear strike against the United States, its territories, or its allies.

Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2023 Display Title 45 Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2023 2024-07-24T15:22:39Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2023 2024-05-24T13:40:52Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to restrict the first-use strike of nuclear weapons. 2024-02-28T09:08:36Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s1186is/xml/BILLS-118s1186is.xml 2023-04-18 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.