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S.Amdt. 1279Senate112th Congress (2011-2013)

S.Amdt. 1279

What it does: Adds SEC. 1088. SENSE OF SENATE ON THE MAINTENANCE BY THE UNITED STATES OF A TRIAD OF STRATEGIC NUCLEAR DELIVERY SYSTEMS at the end of subtitle H of title X
Sponsored by John HoevenSen. John Hoeven (R-ND)
Submitted November 18, 2011

What it changes

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  1. Adds SEC. 1088. SENSE OF SENATE ON THE MAINTENANCE BY THE UNITED STATES OF A TRIAD OF STRATEGIC NUCLEAR DELIVERY SYSTEMS at the end of subtitle H of title X

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    In S. 1867 · Placed on Calendar Senate

    Section 382 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking "biological or chemical" each place it appears in subsections (a) and (b).

    Inserted: SEC. 1088. SENSE OF SENATE ON THE MAINTENANCE BY THE UNITED STATES OF A TRIAD OF STRATEGIC NUCLEAR DELIVERY SYSTEMS.

    Inserted: (a) Findings.--The Senate finds the following:

    Inserted: (1) The April 2010 Nuclear Posture Review concluded that even with the reductions specified in the New START Treaty, the United States should retain a nuclear "Triad" of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and nuclear capable heavy bombers, noting that "[r]etaining all three Triad legs will best maintain strategic stability at reasonable cost, while hedging against potential technical problems or vulnerabilities".

    Inserted: (2) The resolution of ratification for the New START Treaty, which the Senate approved on December 22, 2010, stated that "it is the sense of the Senate that United States deterrence and flexibility is assured by a robust triad of strategic delivery vehicles. To this end, the United States is committed to accomplishing the modernization and replacement of its strategic nuclear delivery vehicles, and to ensuring the continued flexibility of United States conventional and nuclear delivery systems".

    Inserted: (3) In a message to the Senate on February 2, 2011, President Obama certified that he intended to "modernize or replace the triad of strategic nuclear delivery systems: a heavy bomber and air-launched cruise missile, an ICBM, and a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) and SLBM" and to "maintain the United States rocket motor industrial base".

    Inserted: (b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--

    Inserted: (1) the United States should maintain a triad of strategic nuclear delivery systems; and

    Inserted: (2) the budget of the President for fiscal year 2013 as submitted to Congress should include funding to support a triad of strategic nuclear delivery systems and to modernize the component weapons and delivery systems of that triad.

    Original wording

    At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

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SA 1279. Mr. HOEVEN (for himself, Mr. Tester, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Enzi, and Mr. Vitter) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1867, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2012 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 H of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1088. SENSE OF SENATE ON THE MAINTENANCE BY THE UNITED STATES OF A TRIAD OF STRATEGIC NUCLEAR DELIVERY SYSTEMS.

(a) Findings.--The Senate finds the following:

(1) The April 2010 Nuclear Posture Review concluded that even with the reductions specified in the New START Treaty, the United States should retain a nuclear “Triad” of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and nuclear capable heavy bombers, noting that “[r]etaining all three Triad legs will best maintain strategic stability at reasonable cost, while hedging against potential technical problems or vulnerabilities”.

(2) The resolution of ratification for the New START Treaty, which the Senate approved on December 22, 2010, stated that “it is the sense of the Senate that United States deterrence and flexibility is assured by a robust triad of strategic delivery vehicles. To this end, the United States is committed to accomplishing the modernization and replacement of its strategic nuclear delivery vehicles, and to ensuring the continued flexibility of United States conventional and nuclear delivery systems”.

(3) In a message to the Senate on February 2, 2011, President Obama certified that he intended to “modernize or replace the triad of strategic nuclear delivery systems: a heavy bomber and air-launched cruise missile, an ICBM, and a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) and SLBM” and to “maintain the United States rocket motor industrial base”.

(b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--

(1) the United States should maintain a triad of strategic nuclear delivery systems; and

(2) the budget of the President for fiscal year 2013 as submitted to Congress should include funding to support a triad of strategic nuclear delivery systems and to modernize the component weapons and delivery systems of that triad.

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November 18, 2011