[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3412]
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  SA 1927. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2021 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
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 D of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1242. STATEMENT OF POLICY WITH RESPECT TO THE NEW START 
                   TREATY.

       (a) In General.--It is the policy of the United States to 
     extend the New START Treaty an additional five years until 
     February 2026, as is permitted under Article XIV of the 
     Treaty, unless--
       (1) the President determines that the Russian Federation is 
     in material breach of its obligations under the Treaty; or
       (2) the United States and the Russian Federation enter into 
     a new bilateral agreement that places equal or greater 
     verifiable constraints on the nuclear forces of the Russian 
     Federation.
       (b) New START Treaty; Treaty Defined.--The terms ``New 
     START Treaty'' and ``Treaty'' mean 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 at Prague April 8, 2010, and 
     entered into force February 5, 2011.
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