[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 25, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S1734]
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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 34--EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF CONGRESS THAT 
THE PRESIDENT SHOULD HOLD THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ACCOUNTABLE FOR BEING 
  IN MATERIAL BREACH OF ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE INTERMEDIATE-RANGE 
                         NUCLEAR FORCES TREATY

  Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Vitter, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. 
Cornyn, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Wicker, and Mr. Risch) submitted the following 
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Relations:

                            S. Con. Res. 34

       Whereas the Russian Federation is in material breach of its 
     obligations under the Treaty Between the United States of 
     America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the 
     Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range 
     Missiles, commonly referred to as the Intermediate-Range 
     Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed at Washington December 8, 
     1987, and entered into force June 1, 1988; and
       Whereas such behavior poses a threat to the United States, 
     its deployed forces, and its allies: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the President should hold the Russian Federation 
     accountable for being in material breach of its obligations 
     under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty;
       (2) the President should demand the Russian Federation 
     completely and verifiably eliminate the military systems that 
     constitute the material breach of its obligations under the 
     Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty;
       (3) the President should not engage in further reductions 
     of United States nuclear forces generally and should not 
     engage in nuclear arms reduction negotiations with the 
     Russian Federation specifically until such complete and 
     verifiable elimination of the military systems has occurred; 
     and
       (4) the President, in consultation with United States 
     allies, should consider whether it is in the national 
     security interests of the United States to unilaterally 
     remain a party to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces 
     Treaty if the Russian Federation is still in material breach 
     of such Treaty beginning one year after the date of the 
     adoption of this concurrent resolution.

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