[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12334-12335]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             SUSTAINING NUCLEAR DETERRENCE AFTER NEW START

  (Mr. LAMBORN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LAMBORN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss a critical 
component of America's national security, our nuclear deterrence. 
Yesterday, the House Armed Services Committee Strategic Forces 
Subcommittee held a hearing on sustaining nuclear deterrence after New 
START. This hearing made it absolutely clear that the nuclear policy 
provisions in the House fiscal year 2012 National Defense Authorization 
Act are critical to our nuclear deterrence strategy.
  The ink was barely dry on the New START Treaty, and the 
administration

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was already talking about deeper cuts. We need to slow down and wait 
for nuclear modernization to catch up to arms control. We must be wary 
of any further unilateral reductions of the U.S. nuclear deterrent, 
which is critical to America's defense and that of over 30 of our 
allies. Congress has an obligation to scrutinize U.S. nuclear policy 
and force structure to ensure that we have a sustainable and effective 
deterrent, which is why the House NDAA nuclear policy provisions must 
become law.

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