[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 88 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3725]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1605. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to 
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle B of title XXXI, add the following:

     SEC. 3124. LIMITATION ON ACCELERATION OF DISMANTLEMENT OF 
                   RETIRED NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

       (a) Limitation.--Except as provided in subsections (b) and 
     (c), none of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this 
     Act or otherwise made available for any of fiscal years 2016 
     through 2020 for the National Nuclear Security Administration 
     may be obligated or expended to accelerate the dismantlement 
     of the nuclear weapons of the United States to a rate faster 
     than the rate mandated by the total projected dismantlement 
     schedule included in table 2-7 of the annex to the stockpile 
     stewardship and management plan for fiscal year 2016 
     submitted to Congress in March 2015 under section 4203 of the 
     Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2523).
       (b) Exception for Compliance With Certain Commitments.--
       (1) Certification.--The limitation under subsection (a) 
     shall not apply with respect to a fiscal year if the 
     President submits to the appropriate congressional committees 
     a certification that the President has--
       (A) requested, in the budget of the President for that 
     fiscal year submitted to Congress under section 1105(a) of 
     title 31, United States Code, sufficient amounts to fulfill 
     for that fiscal year all commitments related to nuclear 
     modernization funding, capabilities, and schedules that the 
     President made to the Senate during the consideration by the 
     Senate of the resolution of advice and consent to 
     ratification of the New START Treaty, as described in--
       (i) the document entitled, ``Message from the President on 
     the New START Treaty'', dated February 2, 2011; and
       (ii) the fiscal year 2012 update to the report required by 
     section 1251 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111-84; 123 Stat. 2549), 
     submitted to Congress in February 2011; and
       (B) except as provided in paragraph (2), fulfilled all such 
     commitments.
       (2) Exception.--If, for any fiscal year covered by the 
     limitation under subsection (a), an appropriations Act is 
     enacted that appropriates amounts that are insufficient for 
     the President to fulfill the commitments described in 
     paragraph (1)(A), the President may certify under paragraph 
     (1)(B) that the President has fulfilled such commitments to 
     the extent possible with available funds.
       (c) Exception for Certain Stockpile Management 
     Activities.--The limitation under subsection (a) shall not 
     apply to activities necessary to conduct maintenance or 
     surveillance of the nuclear weapons stockpile or activities 
     to ensure the safety or reliability of the stockpile.
       (d) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
       (A) the congressional defense committees;
       (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Select 
     Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
       (C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Permanent 
     Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (2) New start treaty.--The term ``New START Treaty'' means 
     the Treaty between the United States of America and the 
     Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and 
     Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed on April 8, 
     2010, and entered into force on February 5, 2011.
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