Recognizing the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and calling on the President to engage in nonproliferation strategies designed to eliminate these weapons of mass destruction from United States and worldwide arsenals.
Latest action · Feb 5, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
Progress
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- IntroducedJan 16, 2007
- Agreed to in HouseNot reached
Summary
Requests the President to inform Congress and the Secretary General of the United Nations regarding U.S. efforts and measures taken with respect to implementation and observance of Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and certain U.N. resolutions calling for U.S. and world nuclear disarmament.
Calls on the President to implement and observe all NPT obligations and commitments and to revise national policies on nuclear weapons accordingly.
Urges the President, in the interests of protecting and advancing human, national, and global security, to: (1) declare that the United States will not use nuclear weapons first, and that pending their elimination, such weapons serve only to deter a nuclear attack by a hostile state or other entity; (2) initiate and conclude multilateral negotiations on verifiable steps nuclear states shall take to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons; (3) cooperate with the Russian Federation to remove from deployment nuclear weapons that are operational; (4) reaffirm the moratorium on nuclear testing and work for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; (5) terminate all efforts to enhance U.S. military capabilities of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and to develop ballistic missile defenses; and (6) support initiatives to ban weapons in outer space.
Cosponsors 20
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 16, 2007 to May 5, 2008, with 5 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Original | Jan 16, 2007 |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Original | Jan 16, 2007 |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Original | Jan 16, 2007 |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Original | Jan 16, 2007 |
| D-CA | Sam Farr | Original | Jan 16, 2007 |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Jan 22, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Mar 12, 2007 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Mar 19, 2007 | |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Apr 24, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Rush Holt | Apr 24, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Jose E. Serrano | May 7, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Michael M. Honda | May 21, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Jun 6, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Jul 31, 2007 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Sep 5, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 5, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
- Jan 16, 2007Introduced in House
- Jan 16, 2007Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Advice and consent of the Senate
- Aggression
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Arms control
- Arms control agreements
- Arms control negotiations
- Ballistic missile defenses
- Ballistic missiles
- Building construction
- Conferences
- Congress
- Congress and foreign policy
- Congress and military policy
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional-executive relations
- Energy
- Environmental Protection
- Federal installations
- Government Operations and Politics
- International Affairs
- International cooperation
- Laboratories
- Military research
- Nuclear nonproliferation
- Nuclear weapons
- Plutonium
- President and foreign policy
- Research and development
- Research centers
- Russia
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Space activities
- Space warfare
- Tactical nuclear weapons
- Tritium
- United Nations
- War
- Weapons of mass destruction
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 16, 2007Introduced in House
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