[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2242 Introduced in Senate (IS)]


109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2242

To establish the policy of the United States with respect to deployment 
 of missile defense systems capable of defending allies of the United 
                States against ballistic missile attack.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 2, 2006

  Mr. Vitter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To establish the policy of the United States with respect to deployment 
 of missile defense systems capable of defending allies of the United 
                States against ballistic missile attack.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Defense Against Regional Threats Act 
of 2005''.

SEC. 2. ALLIED MISSILE DEFENSE POLICY.

    It is the policy of the United States to provide for deployment as 
soon as is technologically possible of effective missile defense 
systems capable of defending Israel, Japan, the Republic of Korea, 
Taiwan, and all member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization against ballistic missile attack.

SEC. 3. ALLIED BURDENSHARING.

    It is the policy of the United States to seek continued negotiated 
burdensharing agreements with the nations specified in section 2 to 
share the costs of development and deployment of ballistic missile 
defense systems.
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