H. RES. 77

Embracing the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 31, 2023

Mr. McGovern (for himself, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Norton, and Ms. Jayapal) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

RESOLUTION

Embracing the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States—

(1) calls on the President to embrace the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and make nuclear disarmament the centerpiece of the national security policy of the United States; and

(2) calls on the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, all other Federal and congressional leaders of the United States and the American people to lead a global effort to move the world back from the nuclear brink and to prevent nuclear war by—

(A) actively pursuing and concluding negotiations on a new, bilateral nuclear arms control and disarmament framework agreement with the Russian Federation before 2026 and pursuing negotiations with China and other nuclear-armed states on an agreement or agreements for the verifiable, enforceable, and timebound elimination of global nuclear arsenals;

(B) renouncing the option of using nuclear weapons first;

(C) ending the President’s sole authority to launch a nuclear attack;

(D) taking the nuclear weapons of the United States off hair-trigger alert; and

(E) canceling the plan to replace the nuclear arsenal of the United States with modernized, enhanced weapons.