Warren Sends Letter to SASC Leaders Requesting Low-Yield Weapons Ban in Conference NDAA

摘要

Senate Democrats - led by a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Democratic presidential candidate- are calling on committee leaders to adopt several House-passed measures that would ban low-yield missilesdeployment and extend the New START Treaty during future conference sessions over the fiscal 2020 National DefenseAuthorization Act.Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter Aug. 20 to Armed Services Chair Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and RankingMember Jack Reed (D-R.I.) requesting that they include three nuclear weapons-related provisions in the final NDAA thatwere passed in the House version, but not the Senate.