HJRES 13 · 98th Congress · International Affairs
A joint resolution calling for a mutual and verifiable freeze on and reductions in nuclear weapons.
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EnactedLatest: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 129.(1983-05-09)
Recorded Votes
PassedHouse · 1983-05-04
Yea 278Nay 149
PassedHouse · 1983-05-04
Yea 278Nay 149
Plain Language Summary
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States that the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) between the United States and the Soviet Union should: (1) pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) decide when and how to achieve a mutual verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) give special attention to destabilizing weapons; (4) pursue reductions through numerical ceilings and other means; (5) preserve present limitations on nuclear weapons; and (6) incorporate ongoing negotiations in Geneva on land-based intermediate-range nuclear missiles into the START negotiations. Requires that every effort be made to reach common positions with the NATO allies.…
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Cosponsors (20)
19 Democrats1 Republican