Introduced
February 4, 2025
Mr. Foster (for himself, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Garamendi, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Khanna, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Norton, Mr. Quigley, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Casten, and Ms. Titus) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
RESOLUTION
Expressing support for the continued value of arms control agreements and negotiated constraints on Russian and Chinese strategic nuclear forces.
- (1) condemns in the strongest terms the use of nuclear escalatory rhetoric and veiled threats to potentially use nuclear weapons in the context of the illegal invasion of a free and independent Ukraine;
- (2) condemns the Russian Federation’s purported suspension of its participation in the New START Treaty;
- (3) calls for immediate cessation of nuclear saber rattling and nuclear escalatory rhetoric from the Russian Federation, or by any other nuclear-armed state;
- (4) emphasizes the continued value of arms control agreements between the United States and the Russian Federation, which possess the world’s largest nuclear arsenals;
- (5) calls for the Russian Federation to promptly return to full implementation of the New START Treaty, including onsite inspections, provision of treaty-mandated notifications and data, and resumption of Bilateral Consultative Commission meetings;