[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 115 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 115

 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United 
States should maintain a land-based intercontinental ballistic missile 
           force of not less than 500 Minuteman III missiles.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2007

 Mr. Rehberg submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Armed Services

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United 
States should maintain a land-based intercontinental ballistic missile 
           force of not less than 500 Minuteman III missiles.

Whereas consistent with warhead levels agreed to in the Treaty Between the 
        United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic 
        Offensive Reductions, done at Moscow on May 24, 2002 (the ``Moscow 
        Treaty''), the United States is permanently modifying the capacity of 
        the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from its 
        prior capability to carry up to three independent reentry vehicles to a 
        single reentry vehicle system, a process known as downloading;
Whereas through the downloading process and the elimination of the Peacekeeper 
        (MX) intercontinental ballistic missile, the United States is now 
        transitioning to a land-based intercontinental ballistic missile force 
        of not less than 500 Minuteman III missiles, each equipped with a single 
        nuclear warhead; and
Whereas in a potential nuclear crisis it is important that the nuclear weapons 
        systems of the United States be configured so as to discourage other 
        nations from making a first strike: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved,  That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that it should be the policy of the United States to continue to 
transition to an intercontinental ballistic missile force with not less 
than 500 missiles, each equipped with a single nuclear warhead, in 
order to sufficiently deter current and emerging threats to the 
security of the United States.
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