To amend the preamble to the Treaty to acknowledge the interrelationship between non-strategic and strategic offensive arms.

SA 4839. Mr. RISCH (for himself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Inhofe, and Mr.
LeMieux) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to
Treaty Doc. 111-5, Treaty between the United States of America and the
Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation
of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed in Prague on April 8, 2010, with
Protocol; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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On Pages S10520-10522, December 17, 2010, under the heading TEXT
OF AMENDMENTS, the following appears, for Amendments SA 4833, SA
4839, SA 4840, SA 4841, and SA 4842: ``. . . intended to be
proposed by him to the resolution of ratification for Treaty Doc.
111-5 . . .''

The Record has been corrected to read: ``. . . intended to be
proposed by him to Treaty Doc. 111-5 . . .''

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In the preamble to the New START Treaty, insert after
``strategic offensive arms of the Parties,'' the following:
Acknowledging there is an interrelationship between non-
strategic and strategic offensive arms, that as the number of
strategic offensive arms is reduced this relationship becomes
more pronounced and requires an even greater need for
transparency and accountability, and that the disparity
between the Parties' arsenals could undermine predictability
and stability,
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