S.Amdt. 1307
What it does: Adds SEC. 1089. READINESS AND FLEXIBILITY OF INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE FORCE at the end of subtitle H of title X
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)What it changes
1 change to S. 1867 · shown in the bill's text
Adds SEC. 1089. READINESS AND FLEXIBILITY OF INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE FORCE at the end of subtitle H of title X
Adds a sectionIn 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. 1089. READINESS AND FLEXIBILITY OF INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE FORCE.
Inserted: Notwithstanding any other provision of law and consistent with the treaty obligations of the United States, the Secretary of Defense shall--
Inserted: (1) retain all of the 450 intercontinental ballistic missile launch facilities currently supporting deployed strategic nuclear delivery vehicles within the limit of 800 deployed and non-deployed strategic launchers;
Inserted: (2) maintain a minimum of 420 intercontinental ballistic missiles on alert or operationally deployed status;
Inserted: (3) preserve all 450 existing intercontinental ballistic missile silos in operational or warm status; and
Inserted: (4) distribute any reductions in the intercontinental ballistic missile force equally among the three operational inter-continental ballistic missile bases.
Original wording
At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:
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As printed
SA 1307. Mr. BARRASSO (for himself, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Baucus, and Mr. Tester) 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. 1089. READINESS AND FLEXIBILITY OF INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE FORCE.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law and consistent with the treaty obligations of the United States, the Secretary of Defense shall--
(1) retain all of the 450 intercontinental ballistic missile launch facilities currently supporting deployed strategic nuclear delivery vehicles within the limit of 800 deployed and non-deployed strategic launchers;
(2) maintain a minimum of 420 intercontinental ballistic missiles on alert or operationally deployed status;
(3) preserve all 450 existing intercontinental ballistic missile silos in operational or warm status; and
(4) distribute any reductions in the intercontinental ballistic missile force equally among the three operational inter-continental ballistic missile bases.
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Senate amendment submitted
November 18, 2011