IV 
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. WOOL-
SEY, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, 
Mr. SERRANO, Ms. NORTON, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. FATTAH, Ms. WAT-
SON, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. WU, Ms. MCCOLLUM of Min-
nesota, 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 Comprehen-
sive 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 ap-
proved 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 Comprehen-
sive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, including Russia, the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China, the United Kingdom, France, 
and Israel; 
Whereas 135 countries have ratified the Comprehensive Nu-
clear-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 rat-
ify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty for it to 
enter into force; 
Whereas the United States commitment to conclude the Com-
prehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty was a pivotal factor 
in gaining international support for the indefinite exten-
sion 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, rein-
force 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 Com-
prehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty would help constrain 
the development of new types of nuclear warheads by ex-
isting nuclear-weapon states, including the People’s Re-
public of China, Russia, India, and Pakistan, and impede 
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•HRES 882 IH 
the development of smaller, more easily deliverable war-
heads 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 main-
tain 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 Ener-
gy’s nuclear weapon complex and are properly focused on 
this task; 
Whereas the National Academy of Sciences panel, which in-
cluded 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 dis-
cover these problems and is not likely to be needed to ad-
dress them’’; 
Whereas since 1992, the United States has observed a mora-
torium on nuclear testing; 
Whereas for each of the last 10 years, the Secretary of De-
fense 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 Nuclear- 
Test-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 na-
tional security of the United States; and 
Whereas the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty re-
mains on the executive calendar of the United States 
Senate: Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that the Senate should initiate a bipartisan 
process to give its advice and consent to ratification of 
the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. 
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