IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1079 
Expressing support for the continued value of arms control agreements and 
condemning the Russian Federation’s purported suspension of its partici-
pation in the New START Treaty. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 13, 2024 
Mr. FOSTER (for himself, Mr. MEEKS, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. BEYER, Mr. 
GARAMENDI, Ms. TITUS, Mr. KEATING, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. OMAR, Ms. 
SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. NORTON, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. SCHIFF, Ms. PORTER, Ms. 
KAMLAGER-DOVE, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Mr. LIEU, Mr. BLUMENAUER, 
Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. KUSTER, Mr. MORELLE, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. GOLD-
MAN of New York, Mr. AMO, and Mr. ALLRED) 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 condemning the Russian Federation’s 
purported suspension of its participation in the New 
START Treaty. 
Whereas the United States maintains bipartisan support to 
ensure national security and the defense of United States 
allies and partners; 
Whereas President Reagan stated that ‘‘a nuclear war cannot 
be won and must never be fought’’ in his 1984 State of 
the Union address, and affirmed the conviction with So-
viet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985; 
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•HRES 1079 IH 
Whereas, in January 2022, President Biden joined the lead-
ers of the People’s Republic of China, the French Repub-
lic, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Northern Ireland to reaffirm that ‘‘a 
nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought’’; 
Whereas the United States, the Russian Federation, and the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 
signed the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, committing ‘‘to 
respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing 
borders of Ukraine’’ and ‘‘to refrain from the threat or 
use of force’’ against the country; 
Whereas the United States has a history of leadership in pre-
venting the spread of nuclear weapons, including its work 
with Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the Russian 
Federation to ensure Ukraine did not retain any nuclear 
weapons left on its territory when it became independent; 
Whereas the Russian Federation further illegally invaded 
Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and has used veiled and 
blatant nuclear saber-rattling in service of its war of ag-
gression against a sovereign state; 
Whereas the war has led to thousands of casualties, including 
over 10,000 civilians and more than 560 children killed, 
along with the displacement of over 6,400,000 Ukrain-
ians and an enduring global food crisis; 
Whereas the Russian Federation’s illegal war against 
Ukraine represents the greatest threat to European secu-
rity and freedom in a generation; 
Whereas, on February 27, 2022, Russian President Putin or-
dered his military to put Russia’s nuclear forces on ‘‘spe-
cial combat readiness’’ in an escalatory response to the 
United States and its Western allies’ unequivocal con-
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•HRES 1079 IH 
demnation of the Russian Federation’s illegal invasion of 
Ukraine; 
Whereas, on September 21, 2022, President Putin warned he 
was ‘‘not bluffing’’ when he said Russia has ‘‘various 
weapons of mass destruction’’ and ‘‘will use all the means 
available to us’’ to defend its territory shortly before an-
nexing additional Ukrainian lands through ‘‘referen-
dums’’; 
Whereas, in February 2021, the United States and the Rus-
sian Federation extended the treaty between the United 
States of America and the Russian Federation on Meas-
ures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Stra-
tegic Offensive Arms, also known as New START, for 5 
years until February 5, 2026; 
Whereas, on February 21, 2023, President Putin announced 
the Russian Federation’s purported suspension of the 
New START Treaty, the last major remaining bilateral 
nuclear arms control agreement, in a move deemed le-
gally invalid by the United States; 
Whereas New START has had bipartisan support and limits 
the Russian nuclear arsenal to 1,550 warheads on no 
more than 700 deployed delivery vehicles, and to 800 de-
ployed and nondeployed strategic launchers; 
Whereas New START has permitted robust and strict trans-
parency and verification measures and onsite inspections, 
which have provided valuable insight into Russia’s nu-
clear arsenal; 
Whereas the United States has decades of bipartisan leader-
ship in nuclear arms control, including cooperation with 
the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation even when 
relations were strained; 
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•HRES 1079 IH 
Whereas, in June 2023, the United States Government an-
nounced it is now ready to engage in a dialogue with the 
Russian Federation on a post-2026 nuclear arms control 
framework and is ‘‘prepared to stick to the central limits 
as long as Russia does’’ while also stating a ‘‘willingness 
to engage in bilateral arms control discussions’’ with the 
Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China 
‘‘without preconditions’’; 
Whereas the nuclear weapon states recognized by the Nuclear 
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), including the Russian 
Federation, the United States, as well as the People’s Re-
public of China, have an obligation to ‘‘pursue negotia-
tions in good faith on effective measures relating to ces-
sation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to 
nuclear disarmament’’; 
Whereas, in November 2023, senior United States and Chi-
nese officials held ‘‘a candid and in-depth discussion on 
issues related to arms control and nonproliferation as 
part of ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of commu-
nication and responsibly manage the U.S.-PRC relation-
ship’’; and 
Whereas the absence of a new framework for nuclear arms 
control after the expiration of New START would affect 
strategic stability and increase the risk of an unre-
strained nuclear arms race with the Russian Federation: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns in the strongest terms the Rus-
sian Federation’s nuclear escalatory rhetoric and 
veiled threats on the potential use of nuclear weap-
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•HRES 1079 IH 
ons to further its invasion and aggression against a 
free and independent Ukraine; 
(2) condemns the Russian Federation’s pur-
ported 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; 
(4) emphasizes the continued value of arms 
control agreements between the United States and 
the Russian Federation; 
(5) calls for the Russian Federation to prompt-
ly return to full implementation of New START, in-
cluding onsite inspections, provision of treaty-man-
dated notifications and data, and resumption of Bi-
lateral Consultative Commission meetings; 
(6) calls on the Biden administration to con-
tinue to engage the People’s Republic of China in 
further bilateral talks on nuclear risk reduction and 
arms control, and to pursue new multilateral arms 
control efforts involving the five permanent members 
of the United Nations Security Council; and 
(7) calls on the Biden administration to con-
tinue to pursue nuclear arms control and risk reduc-
tion dialogue with the Russian Federation to main-
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