Principals Fan-Out to Urge Ratification of New START Posted by Kelsey Hartigan

As one of the final priorities for the 111th Congress, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty provides Senators—both new and returning—with the opportunity to demonstrate seriousness on an issue that has largely escaped public debate this election cycle:  national security.   

New START has the unanimous support of the United States military.  The treaty reinstates a stringent verification regime that allows U.S. inspectors to once again monitor Russia’s nuclear arsenal.  It has already been 333 days and counting since we’ve had boots on the ground in Russia.  When Congress returns to Washington on November 15, Senators need to respect the advice of our military and national security leadership and ratify this important treaty. 

In the wake of the elections, we’ve already seen a flurry of support for moving ahead with New START:  

After a Cabinet Meeting this morning, President Obama remarked, “I should mention that in addition to those economic issues, there are some things during the lame duck that relate to foreign policy that are going to be very important for us to deal with, and I’ll make mention of one in particular, and that’s the START treaty.  We have negotiated with the Russians significant reductions in our nuclear arms.  This is something that traditionally has received strong bipartisan support.  We’ve got people like George Shultz, who helped to organize arms control treaties with the Russians back when it was the Soviet Union who have come out forcefully in favor of this.

This is not a traditionally Democratic or Republican issue but rather a issue of American national security.  And I am hopeful that we can get that done before we leave and send a strong signal to Russia that we are serious about reducing nuclear arsenals, but also sending a signal to the world that we’re serious about nonproliferation.  We’ve made great progress when it comes to sending a message to Iran that they are isolated internationally, in part because people have seen that we are serious about taking our responsibilities when it comes to nonproliferation, and that has to continue.”

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters yesterday, “We take this treaty very seriously, and I know that the Russian Government does as well. We are working hard to pass the treaty. As you know, it was reported out of our Senate Foreign Relations Committee by an overwhelming vote. We believe we have enough votes to pass it in the Senate. It’s just a question of when it will be brought to the vote. It may be brought – and it would certainly be my preference that it be brought in any lame-duck session in the next several weeks. And that is what I’m working toward seeing happen. But we’ll have to wait and work with the Senate and the leadership when they come back for that session.  So both Russia and the United States are committed to ratifying it.”

“Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) said Wednesday he remains committed to get the U.S.-Russian arms control treaty ratified by the end of the year.  ‘As Chairman Kerry has consistently said, approving the New START Treaty is an urgent imperative,’ Kerry spokeswoman Jennifer Berlin said Wednesday. ‘The chairman remains committed to working with Ranking Member Lugar, Republicans, and the administration to enable the Senate to get this done by the end of the year. Failure to approve New START as soon as possible would not only weaken American security, it would undermine the spirit of bipartisanship that has characterized previous arms control deliberations,’ Berlin continued.”

New START is an urgent national security priority and it’s on the short list for the lame duck session—so for a number of Senators, it’s decision time:  Follow the advice of our uniformed military or put politics above our national security and cede any shred of credibility on national security issues once and for all.

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