S.Amdt. 575

SA 575. Mr. CRAMER (for himself, Ms. Lummis, and Mr. Daines)
submitted an amendment intended to be

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proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 5, setting
forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for
fiscal year 2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for
fiscal years 2022 through 2030; which was ordered to lie on the table;
as follows:

At the appropriate place in title IV, add the following:

SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST UNILATERALLY REDUCING THE
NUMBER OF DEPLOYED STRATEGIC NUCLEAR WARHEADS
BELOW 1,550.

(a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate
to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment,
amendment between the Houses, or conference report that
would--
(1) cause a decrease in the number of deployed nuclear
warheads below the number set in the New START Treaty of
1,550; or
(2) reduce Federal funds to maintain, modernize, and
replace deployed strategic nuclear warheads to ensure the
current number of such warheads never unilaterally drops
below 1,550.
(b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or
suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative
vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly
chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of
the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under
subsection (a).
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