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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 882 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Senate should 

initiate a bipartisan process to give its advice and consent to ratification 

of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 17, 2007 

Mrs. TAUSCHER (for herself, Mr. SKELTON, Mr. LANTOS, Ms. SUTTON, Mr. 

ROTHMAN, Mr. LOEBSACK, Mr. FARR, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mr. 

CROWLEY, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. LEE, Mr. JOHNSON of 

Georgia, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, 

Mr. SERRANO, Ms. NORTON, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. FATTAH, Ms. WATSON, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. WU, Ms. MCCOLLUM of Minnesota, Mr. HOLT, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. 

BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. FILNER, Mrs. CAPPS, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN

of California, and Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 

the Senate should initiate a bipartisan process to give 

its advice and consent to ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. 

Whereas securing a global nuclear test ban has been a central 

arms control objective for more than 40 years; 

Whereas on September 10, 1996, the United Nations approved the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty; 


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Whereas on September 24, 1996, the United States signed 

the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the 

United Nations; 

Whereas to date, 176 countries have signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, including Russia, the People’s Republic of China, the United Kingdom, France, 

and Israel; 

Whereas 135 countries have ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, including all member states of the 

North Atlantic Treaty Organization other than the 

United States; 

Whereas 10 countries, including the United States, must ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty for it to 

enter into force; 

Whereas the United States commitment to conclude the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty was a pivotal factor 

in gaining international support for the indefinite extension of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear 

Weapons, the cornerstone of the nuclear nonproliferation 

regime; 

Whereas the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty will 

strengthen the global norm against nuclear testing, reinforce the nuclear nonproliferation regime, and thereby 

help efforts by the United States to stop the spread of 

nuclear weapons to additional countries or groups; 

Whereas by verifiably prohibiting ‘‘any nuclear weapon test 

explosion or any other nuclear explosion’’, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty would help constrain 

the development of new types of nuclear warheads by existing nuclear-weapon states, including the People’s Republic of China, Russia, India, and Pakistan, and impede 


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the development of smaller, more easily deliverable warheads by would-be nuclear weapon states; 

Whereas independent nuclear weapons experts, including a 

National Academy of Sciences panel in 2002, believe that 

the United States has the technical capabilities to maintain confidence in the safety and reliability of its existing 

nuclear-weapon stockpile under a test ban, if adequate 

resources are made available to the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapon complex and are properly focused on 

this task; 

Whereas the National Academy of Sciences panel, which included three former lab directors, found that age-related 

defects mainly related to non-nuclear components can be 

expected, but that ‘‘nuclear testing is not needed to discover these problems and is not likely to be needed to address them’’; 

Whereas since 1992, the United States has observed a moratorium on nuclear testing; 

Whereas for each of the last 10 years, the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Energy have formally certified to 

the President that the United States nuclear stockpile 

continues to be safe and reliable without nuclear testing; 

Whereas the entry into force of the Comprehensive NuclearTest-Ban Treaty is essential to realizing the full benefits 

of the Treaty’s extensive international monitoring system 

and on-site inspection capabilities, which enhance the national security of the United States; and 

Whereas the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty remains on the executive calendar of the United States 

Senate: Now, therefore, be it 


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1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that the Senate should initiate a bipartisan 

3 process to give its advice and consent to ratification of 

4 the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. 

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