From: Global Action Network via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: ALERT: Stop Nuclear Testing -- H.R.3636/S.2064
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 22 Jul 1992 08:55:17 GMT
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=> From: gan@igc.org 
=> Subject: H.R.3636/S.2064 Nuke Testing Alert 
 
GLOBAL ACTION NETWORK                                     July 21, 1992 
ACTION ALERT 
NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING 
 
BILLS: H.R.3636 by Gephardt (D-MO) and 
       S.2064 by Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR). 
       The Nuclear Testing Moratorium Act. 
        
STATUS:  The language of H.R. 3636 was incorporated into H.R. 5006, 
         the Defense Reauthorization Act, by a vote of 237-167. 
         S.2064 referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. 
         Hearing scheduled for July 23, 1992. 
 
SYNOPSIS:  H.R.3636 and S.2064 call for a one-year moratorium on U.S.  
nuclear testing unless Congress receives Presidential certification that  
any successor state of the former the Soviet Union has conducted an  
explosive nuclear test during the moratorium period.  Although the  
Testing Moratorium Act passed the House easily as part of the larger  
Defense Reauthorization bill, a much tougher fight is expected in the  
Senate.  It was originally believed that the language of S.2064 would  
become incorporated, by amendment, into the Energy and Water  
appropriations bill.  However, markup of this bill may be postponed.   
Focus has now shifted to the Senate defense authorization bill, on which  
the testing moratorium will be offered as an amendment.  Markups of  
these bills are expected to occur within the next few weeks. 
 
S.2064 now has 51 cosponsors, itself.  The Senate Committee on Foreign  
Relations has scheduled a hearing for this Thursday, July 23. 
 
This is a critical time in the life of testing moratorium legislation.   
The Bush Administration, despite overwhelming public support for the  
measure, has come out strongly opposed to limits on testing.  President  
Bush has vowed to veto any Defense Reauthorization bill which contains a  
nuclear testing moratoria provision.  Environmentalists and peace  
activists stress the importance of leadership on the part of the United  
States on this issue, especially given French and Russian actions.  It  
would seem unlikely that other countries would follow suit if the U.S.  
fails restrict testing.  Now is the time to write your Congressional  
Representatives to add to the already growing wave of support for a  
rational testing policy. 
 
 
WHAT TO WRITE: 
 
1.  Ask your Senators to cosponsor S.2064. 
2.  Tell your Senators that funds for nuclear testing would be better  
    spent on building our economic and environmental security. 
3.  In the name of preparing us to fight an enemy that no longer exists,  
    nuclear testing endangers groundwater supplies and creates "national  
    sacrifice zones" which are contaminated for thousands of years.   
    Urge your Senators to cut off funding for this wasteful practice. 
4.  Ask your Senator to vote in favor of amendments to the Defense 
    Authorization bill, or the Energy and Water appropriations bill, 
    that would end nuclear testing, if they arise during floor debate. 
5.  Write to members of the Foreign Relations Committee, and ask that  
    they vote to discharge S.2064 to the Senate floor for consideration  
    as soon as possible. 
6.  Ask your Senator to inform you of his or her stand on nuclear 
    testing. 
 
 
Members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: 
 
            Democrats (11)                         Republicans (8) 
    --------------------------------       ----------------------------- 
          BIDEN (D-DE)                           BROWN (R-CO) 
          CRANSTON (D-CA)                        * HELMS (R-NC) 
          DODD (D-CT)                            JEFFORDS (R-VT) 
          KERRY, JOHN (D-MA)                     KASSEBAUM (R-KS) 
          MOYNIHAN (D-NY)                        LUGAR (R-IN) 
          ** PELL (D-RI)                         MCCONNELL (R-KY) 
          ROBB (D-VA)                            MURKOWSKI (R-AK) 
          SANFORD (D-NC)                         PRESSLER (R-SD) 
          SARBANES (D-MD) 
          SIMON (D-IL) 
          WOFFORD (D-PA) 
 
* Ranking Minority Member 
** Chairperson 
 
 
COSPONSORS: 
 
    Currently:  43 Democrats 
                 8 Republicans 
               --- 
                51 Cosponsors 
 
ADAMS (D-WA)              As Introduced 11/26/91 
AKAKA (D-HI)                      Added 01/24/92 
BAUCUS (D-MT)                     Added 06/03/92 
BENTSEN (D-TX)                    Added 05/19/92 
BIDEN (D-DE)                      Added 02/07/92 
BOREN (D-OK)                      Added 06/16/92 
BRADLEY (D-NJ)                    Added 02/26/92 
BUMPERS (D-AR)                    Added 02/05/92 
BURDICK (D-ND)                    Added 04/29/92 
BYRD, ROBERT (D-WV)               Added 06/11/92 
CHAFEE (R-RI)                     Added 04/30/92 
CRANSTON (D-CA)                   Added 01/24/92 
DANFORTH (R-MO)                   Added 05/06/92 
DASCHLE (D-SD)                    Added 01/24/92 
DECONCINI (D-AZ)          As Introduced 11/26/91 
DODD (D-CT)                       Added 04/02/92 
FORD, WENDELL (D-KY)              Added 04/30/92 
FOWLER (D-GA)                     Added 06/02/92 
GLENN (D-OH)                      Added 05/05/92 
GORE (D-TN)                       Added 06/18/92 
GRASSLEY (R-IA)                   Added 05/19/92 
HARKIN (D-IA)             As Introduced 11/26/91 
INOUYE (D-HI)                     Added 01/24/92 
JEFFORDS (R-VT)           As Introduced 11/26/91 
KASSEBAUM (R-KS)                  Added 06/03/92 
KENNEDY, EDWARD (D-MA)    As Introduced 11/26/91 
KERRY, JOHN (D-MA)                Added 01/24/92 
KOHL (D-WI)                       Added 02/19/92 
LAUTENBERG (D-NJ)                 Added 03/26/92 
LEAHY (D-VT)              As Introduced 11/26/91 
LEVIN, CARL (D-MI)                Added 03/17/92 
LIEBERMAN (D-CT)                  Added 04/08/92 
METZENBAUM (D-OH)                 Added 04/29/92 
MIKULSKI (D-MD)                   Added 01/27/92 
MITCHELL, GEORGE (D-ME)   As Introduced 11/26/91 
MOYNIHAN (D-NY)                   Added 03/17/92 
MURKOWSKI (R-AK)                  Added 06/09/92 
PACKWOOD (R-OR)                   Added 06/29/92 
PELL (D-RI)                       Added 01/24/92 
PRYOR (D-AR)                      Added 06/11/92 
RIEGLE (D-MI)                     Added 01/27/92 
ROBB (D-VA)                       Added 06/16/92 
ROCKEFELLER (D-WV)                Added 06/16/92 
SANFORD (D-NC)                    Added 03/17/92 
SARBANES (D-MD)                   Added 01/27/92 
SASSER (D-TN)                     Added 06/03/92 
SIMON (D-IL)              As Introduced 11/26/91 
SPECTER (R-PA)                    Added 05/07/92 
WELLSTONE (D-MN)          As Introduced 11/26/91 
WIRTH (D-CO)                      Added 02/06/92 
WOFFORD (D-PA)                    Added 03/10/92 
 
SEND CORRESPONDENCE TO: 
 
               The Honorable __________ 
               United States Senate 
               Washington, D.C., 20515 
 
Please send mail to gan@igc.org detailing your actions on this issue. 
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