S.Amdt. 1927

SA 1927. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 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 D of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1242. STATEMENT OF POLICY WITH RESPECT TO THE NEW START
TREATY.

(a) In General.--It is the policy of the United States to
extend the New START Treaty an additional five years until
February 2026, as is permitted under Article XIV of the
Treaty, unless--
(1) the President determines that the Russian Federation is
in material breach of its obligations under the Treaty; or
(2) the United States and the Russian Federation enter into
a new bilateral agreement that places equal or greater
verifiable constraints on the nuclear forces of the Russian
Federation.
(b) New START Treaty; Treaty Defined.--The terms ``New
START Treaty'' and ``Treaty'' mean the Treaty between the
United States of America and the Russian Federation on
Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of
Strategic Offensive Arms, signed at Prague April 8, 2010, and
entered into force February 5, 2011.
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