[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Pages 5522-5523]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 251. Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. 
Harkin) proposed an amendment to the resolution of ratification for 
Treaty Doc. 107-8, The Treaty Between the United States of America and 
the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions, Signed at 
Moscow on May 24, 2002; as follows:


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       At the end of section 3, add the following new declaration:
       (7) Stand-down from alert status of forces covered by 
     treaty.--Noting that the Administration has stated that 
     ``[t]he first planned step in reducing U.S. operationally 
     deployed strategic nuclear warheads will be to retire 50 
     Peacekeeper ICBMs, remove four Trident Submarines from 
     strategic service, and no longer maintain the ability to 
     return the B-1 to nuclear service,'' the Senate--
       (A) encourages the President, within 180 days after the 
     exchange of instruments of ratification of the Treaty, to 
     initiate in a safe and verifiable manner a bilateral stand-
     down from alert status of all United States and Russian 
     Federation nuclear weapons systems that will no longer be 
     operationally deployed under the Treaty, but which the United 
     States and the Russian Federation may keep operationally 
     deployed under the Treaty until December 31, 2012; and
       (B) expects a representative of the executive branch of the 
     Government to offer regular briefings to the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations and the Committee on Armed Services of the 
     Senate regarding--
       (i) the alert status of the nuclear forces of the United 
     States and the Russian Federation;
       (ii) any determination of the President to order a stand-
     down of the alert status of United States nuclear forces; and
       (iii) any progress in establishing cooperative measures 
     with the Russian Federation to effect a stand-down of the 
     alert status of Russian Federation nuclear forces.
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  SA 252. Mr. LEVIN. (for himself, Mr. Feingold, Mr. Akaka, and Mr. 
Kennedy) proposed an amendment to the resolution of ratification for 
Treaty Doc. 107-8, The Treaty Between the United States of America and 
the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions, Signed at 
Moscow on May 24, 2002; as follows:

       At the end of section 2, add the following new condition:
       (3) Notice and consultations prior to withdrawal or 
     extension.--(A) Prior to taking any action relevant to 
     paragraphs 2 or 3 of Article IV of the Treaty, and except as 
     provided in subparagraph (B), the President shall--
       (i) provide not less than 60 days advance notice of such 
     action to the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee 
     on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
       (ii) consult with the Senate on such action.
       (B) The President may waive a requirement in subparagraph 
     (A) if the President--
       (i) determines that national security needs prevent the 
     President from meeting the requirement; and
       (ii) submits to the committees of the Senate referred to in 
     subparagraph (A) a written notice of the waiver, including a 
     description of the national security needs and the reasons 
     justifying the waiver.
       In section 3, strike declaration (6).
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  SA 253. Mr. FEINGOLD proposed an amendment to amendment SA 252 
proposed by Mr. Levin (for himself, Mr. Feingold, Mr. Akaka, and Mr. 
Kennedy) to the resolution of ratification for Treaty Doc. 107-8, The 
Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation 
on Strategic Offensive Reductions, Signed at Moscow on May 24, 2002; as 
follows:

       At the end of the proposed condition, add the following:
       (C) Prior to taking any action relevant to paragraphs 2 or 
     3 of Article IV of the Treaty, the President shall obtain the 
     approval of two thirds of the Senators present.
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  SA 254. Mr. AKAKA proposed an amendment to the resolution of 
ratification for Treaty Doc. 107-8, The Treaty Between the United 
States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive 
Reductions, Signed at Moscow on May 24, 2002; as follows:

       At the end of the last sentence of condition 1 in section 
     2, strike the period and insert the following: ``, and shall 
     include--
       ``(A) an estimate of the funding levels required in the 
     fiscal year following the year of the report to implement all 
     Cooperative Threat Reduction programs and other 
     nonproliferation programs relevant to the Treaty and ensure 
     that nuclear weapons, materials, technology, and expertise in 
     the Russian Federation are secure from theft and diversion; 
     and
       ``(B) a description of any initiatives proposed by the 
     President to address any matter covered by subparagraph (A) 
     in order to improve the implementation or effectiveness of 
     the Treaty.''.
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  SA 255. Mr. KERRY proposed an amendment to the resolution of 
ratification for Treaty Doc. 107-8, The Treaty Between the United 
States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive 
Reductions, Signed at Moscow on May 24, 2002; as follows:

       At the end of section 2, add the following new condition:
       (3) Annual reports on monitoring capabilities.--(A) Not 
     later than 60 days after the exchange of the instruments of 
     ratification of the Treaty, and annually thereafter on May 1, 
     the President shall submit to the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Select 
     Committee on Intelligence of the Senate an estimate, prepared 
     by the Director of Central Intelligence, on the capability of 
     the United States to monitor the compliance of the Russian 
     Federation with the requirements of the Treaty.
       (B) Each estimate shall meet the requirements of a national 
     intelligence estimate under section 103(b)(2)(A) of the 
     National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 403-3(b)(2)(A)), and 
     shall include--
       (i) an estimate, for each strategic nuclear weapons system 
     of the Russian Federation, of the confidence of the United 
     States, whether low, medium, or high, in the capability of 
     the United States to monitor the deployed warheads on such 
     system;
       (ii) an assessment of the capability of the United States 
     to monitor the compliance of the Russian Federation with the 
     requirements of the Treaty--
       (I) under the verification measures of the verification 
     regime under the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of 
     Strategic Offensive Arms, with Annexes, Protocols, and 
     Memorandum of Understanding, signed at Moscow on July 31, 
     1991 (START Treaty); and
       (II) after the verification regime expires upon termination 
     of the START Treaty; and
       (iii) additional mechanisms to ensure United States 
     monitoring of the compliance of the Russian Federation with 
     the requirements of the Treaty, including--
       (I) further agreements between the United States and the 
     Russian Federation;
       (II) mutual data exchanges between the United States and 
     the Russian Federation;
       (III) improvements in the transparency of strategic 
     offensive reductions under the Treaty;
       (IV) improvements to existing monitoring technologies; and
       (V) other appropriate mechanisms.
       (C) Each estimate shall be submitted in both classified and 
     unclassified form.
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  SA 256. Mr. LEVIN (for himself, Mr. Daschle, Mr. Akaka, and Mr. 
Nelson of Florida) proposed an amendment to the resolution of 
ratification for Treaty Doc. 107-8, The Treaty Between the United 
States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive 
Reductions, Signed at Moscow on May 24, 2002; as follows:

       In section 2, in paragraph (2)(F), strike ``; and'' and 
     insert a semicolon.
       In section 2, redesignate paragraph (2)(G) as paragraph 
     2(H).
       In section 2, after paragraph (2)(F), insert the following 
     new subparagraph:
       (G) with respect to the strategic offensive reductions 
     described pursuant to subparagraph (B) for a calendar year, a 
     listing of--
       (i) the total number of each type of strategic offensive 
     nuclear warhead that will be in the nuclear weapons stockpile 
     of the United States during the calendar year, and the total 
     number of each type of strategic offensive nuclear weapon 
     that will be operationally deployed by the United States 
     during the calendar year;
       (ii) the number and type of nuclear warheads in the United 
     States that were dismantled during the previous calendar 
     year; and
       (iii) to the extent possible, the total number of each type 
     of strategic offensive nuclear warhead that will be in the 
     nuclear weapons stockpile of the Russian Federation during 
     the calendar year, and the total number of each type of 
     strategic offensive nuclear weapon that will be operationally 
     deployed by the Russian Federation during the calendar year.
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  SA 257. Mr. FRIST (for Mr. Lautenberg) proposed an amendment to the 
concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 13, condemning the selection of 
Libya to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and for 
other purposes; as follows:

       On page 8, strike line 21 and insert ``(10) objects''

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