IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1059 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Senate should 
act swiftly and expeditiously to give its advice and consent to ratification 
of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 28, 2006 
Mrs. TAUSCHER (for herself, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. FARR, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. 
LEACH, Mr. ROTHMAN, Mr. STARK, Mr. MEEHAN, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, 
Mr. ALLEN, Mr. CROWLEY, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California, Mr. 
SKELTON, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. DELAHUNT, Ms. LEE, Mr. DOGGETT, 
Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Ms. PELOSI, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. KEN-
NEDY of Rhode Island, and Mr. MCGOVERN) submitted the following res-
olution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the Senate should act swiftly and expeditiously to give 
its advice and consent to ratification of the Comprehen-
sive 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 Test Ban Treaty; 
Whereas on September 24, 1996, the United States signed 
the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty at the United Na-
tions; 
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Whereas 176 nations have signed the Comprehensive Test 
Ban Treaty so far, including Russia, China, the United 
Kingdom, France, and Israel; 
Whereas 135 nations have ratified the Comprehensive Test 
Ban Treaty, including all of the NATO partners of the 
United States; 
Whereas 10 states, including the United States must still rat-
ify the Treaty for it to enter into force; 
Whereas the United States commitment to conclude the Com-
prehensive Test Ban Treaty was a pivotal factor in gain-
ing international support for the indefinite extension of 
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 
the cornerstone of the nonproliferation regime; 
Whereas the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty will strengthen 
the global norm against nuclear testing, reinforce the 
nonproliferation regime, and thereby help efforts by the 
United States to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to 
additional nations or groups; 
Whereas by verifiably prohibiting ‘‘any nuclear weapon test 
explosion or any other nuclear explosion,’’ the Com-
prehensive Test Ban Treaty would help constrain the de-
velopment of new types of nuclear warheads by existing 
nuclear-weapon states—including China, Russia, India, 
and Pakistan—and impede 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 main-
tain confidence in the safety and reliability of its existing 
nuclear-weapon stockpile under a test ban, if adequate 
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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 3 former lab directors, found that age-related de-
fects 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 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 national 
security of the United States; and 
Whereas the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty remains on the 
executive calendar of the United States Senate: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that the Senate should act swiftly and expedi-
tiously to give its advice and consent to ratification of the 
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. 
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