Senate—START Treaty may be voted on today
From: Conservative Senators Fund
“Dear Fellow Conservatives:
The nuclear-weapons treaty President Obama has negotiated with the Russians may help him make America’s erstwhile Cold War adversary happy, but it won’t help protect us from the rogue nations that threaten the United States today.
Today, the Senate will begin debating the New START treaty. Democrats want to jam it through with a flock of lame ducks. If ratified, it will force the U.S. to agree to strategic-nuclear-weapons parity with Russia, the direct descendant of a nation that threatened our country’s existence for decades. Who would have thought in the year 2010 the United States would be renewing its Cold War-era policy of mutually assured destruction with Russia?
Mutually assured destruction was a frightening policy that kept two superpowers paralyzed in a nuclear game of chicken. Both countries knew they would be destroyed if they attacked first, and so neither country attacked.
But it’s not a one-on-one game anymore. The U.S. faces threats from China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea in addition to Russia, and the treaty will have no effect on the nuclear-arms-building capabilities of these countries. And New START could hamper our ability to improve our missile-defense system—leaving us unable to destroy more than a handful of missiles at a time and vulnerable to attacks from around the globe.
Click Here to Contact Your Senators
http://senateconservatives.com/callsheet?c=O24D0A14518868E (E-mail links are provided at this site, but are not included with this post—my addition.)
Senator; State; Political Party; D.C. telephone #
001) Begich, Mark AK D (202) 224-3004
002) Murkowski, Lisa AK R (202) 224-6665
003) Sessions, Jeff AL R (202) 224-4124
004) Shelby, Richard C. AL R (202) 224-5744
005) Pryor, Mark L. AR D (202) 224-2353
006) Lincoln, Blanche L. AR D (202) 224-4843
007) McCain, John AZ R (202) 224-2235
008) Kyl, Jon AZ R (202) 224-4521
009) Feinstein, Dianne CA D (202) 224-3841
010) Boxer, Barbara CA D (202) 224-3553
011) Udall, Mark CO D (202) 224-5941
012) Bennet, Michael F. CO D (202) 224-5852
013) Dodd, Christopher J. CT D (202) 224-2823
014) Lieberman, Joseph I. CT ID (202) 224-4041
015) Carper, Thomas R. DE D (202) 224-2441
016) Coons, Christopher A. DE D (202) 224-5042
017) LeMieux, George S. FL R (202) 224-3041
018) Nelson, Bill FL D (202) 224-5274
019) Chambliss, Saxby GA R (202) 224-3521
020) Isakson, Johnny GA R (202) 224-3643
021) Inouye, Daniel K. HI D (202) 224-3934
022) Akaka, Daniel K. HI D (202) 224-6361
023) Harkin, Tom IA D (202) 224-3254
024) Grassley, Chuck IA R (202) 224-3744
025) Risch, James E. ID R (202) 224-2752
026) Crapo, Mike ID R (202) 224-6142
027) Kirk, Mark IL R (202) 224-2854
028) Durbin, Richard J. IL D (202) 224-2152
029) Lugar, Richard G. IN R (202) 224-4814
030) Bayh, Evan IN D (202) 224-5623
031) Brownback, Sam KS R (202) 224-6521
032) Roberts, Pat KS R (202) 224-4774
033) McConnell, Mitch KY R (202) 224-2541
034) Bunning, Jim KY R (202) 224-4343
035) Landrieu, Mary L. LA D (202) 224-5824
036) Vitter, David LA R (202) 224-4623
037) Brown, Scott P. MA R (202) 224-4543
038) Kerry, John F. MA D (202) 224-2742
039) Cardin, Benjamin L. MD D (202) 224-4524
040) Mikulski, Barbara A. MD D (202) 224-4654 (202)
041) Snowe, Olympia J. ME R (202) 224-5344
042) Collins, Susan M. ME R (202) 224-2523
043) Stabenow, Debbie MI D (202) 224-4822
044) Levin, Carl MI D (202) 224-6221
045) Klobuchar, Amy MN D (202) 224-3244
046) Franken, Al MN D (202) 224-5641
047) McCaskill, Claire MO D (202) 224-6154
048) Bond, Christopher S. MO R (202) 224-5721
049) Wicker, Roger F. MS R (202) 224-6253
050) Cochran, Thad MS R (202) 224-5054
051) Tester, Jon MT D (202) 224-2644
052) Baucus, Max MT D (202) 224-2651
053) Burr, Richard NC R (202) 224-3154
054) Hagan, Kay R. NC D (202) 224-6342
055) Dorgan, Byron L. ND D (202) 224-2551
056) Conrad, Kent ND D (202) 224-2043
057) Nelson, Ben NE D (202) 224-6551
058) Johanns, Mike NE R (202) 224-4224
059) Shaheen, Jeanne NH D (202) 224-2841
060) Gregg, Judd NH R (202) 224-3324
061) Menendez, Robert NJ D (202) 224-4744
062) Lautenberg, Frank R. NJ D (202) 224-3224
063) Bingaman, Jeff NM D (202) 224-5521
064) Udall, Tom NM D (202) 224-6621
065) Ensign, John NV R (202) 224-6244
066) Reid, Harry NV D (202) 224-3542
067) Schumer, Charles E. NY D (202) 224-6542
068) Gillibrand, Kirsten E. NY D (202) 224-4451
069) Brown, Sherrod OH D (202) 224-2315
070) Voinovich, George V. OH R (202) 224-3353
071) Inhofe, James M. OK R (202) 224-4721
072) Coburn, Tom OK R (202) 224-5754 073)
073) Wyden, Ron OR D (202) 224-5244
074) Merkley, Jeff OR D (202) 224-3753
075) Specter, Arlen PA D (202) 224-4254
076) Casey, Robert P., Jr. PA D (202) 224-6324
077) Whitehouse, Sheldon RI D (202) 224-2921
078) Reed, Jack RI D (202) 224-4642
079) DeMint, Jim SC R (202) 224-6121
080) Graham, Lindsey SC R (202) 224-5972
081) Johnson, Tim SD D (202) 224-5842
082) Thune, John SD R (202) 224-2321
083) Corker, Bob TN R (202) 224-3344
084) Alexander, Lamar TN R (202) 224-4944
085) Cornyn, John TX R (202) 224-2934
086) Hutchison, Kay Bailey TX R (202) 224-5922
087) Bennett, Robert F. UT R (202) 224-5444
088) Hatch, Orrin G. UT R (202) 224-5251
089) Warner, Mark R. VA D (202) 224-2023
090) Webb, Jim VA D (202) 224-4024
091) Leahy, Patrick J. VT D (202) 224-4242
092) Sanders, Bernard VT I (202) 224-5141
093) Murray, Patty WA D (202) 224-2621
094) Cantwell, Maria WA D (202) 224-3441
095) Kohl, Herb WI D (202) 224-5653
096) Feingold, Russell D. WI D (202) 224-5323
097) Rockefeller, John D., IV WV D (202) 224-6472
098) Manchin, Joe, III WV D (202) 224-3954
099) Barrasso, John WY R (202) 224-6441
100) Enzi, Michael B. WY R (202) 224-3424
Additionally, the treaty favors Russia when it comes to tactical nuclear weapons, which are developed for use on the battlefield. Russia’s stockpile of tactical nuclear weapons, which can be affixed to rockets, submarines, and bomber planes, outnumbers the United States’ by a ratio of 10: 1. These are not covered by the treaty—New START covers only strategic, long-range, high-yield nuclear weapons—leaving Russia able to keep its current advantage and produce more of these weapons at will.
New START also fails on another important front: It doesn’t recognize the fact that Russia and the United States play very different roles in the world. Russia is a threat to many and a protector of none. The United States, on the other hand, is a threat to none and a protector of many. More than 30 nations, many in the former Soviet bloc, depend on the U.S. for their security. The New START treaty does not reflect that obligation. It ignores it.
It’s no secret that the Russians do not want the United States or her allies to be protected by missile defense, and believe that New START forbids further development of missile defense. Last December, in the midst of the treaty’s negotiations, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, ‘By building such an umbrella over themselves, our partners [the U.S.] could feel themselves fully secure and will do whatever they want, which upsets the balance and the aggressiveness immediately increases in real politics and economics.’ After the treaty was signed, the Russians effectively declared victory on the matter. Their government issued a statement that the treaty ‘can operate and be viable only if the United States refrains from developing its missile defense capabilities quantitatively or qualitatively.’
President Obama insists this is not the case, but he and the Russians can’t have it both ways: New START either permits the United States to expand its missile-defense capability or does not.
The treaty’s negotiating records would provide some much-needed clarity. The Obama administration, however, is refusing to provide them to the Senate. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dismissed a request for them during a recent Senate Foreign Relations hearing. She claimed that negotiating records haven’t been provided ‘going back to, I think, President Washington.’
This is not accurate; precedent exists for giving the Senate access to review these records. At the request of Sen. Sam Nunn (D., Ga.), negotiating records were provided to the Senate for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union. What is the administration trying to hide? No action should be taken toward ratifying the New START treaty until the White House provides these documents.
Click Here to Contact Your Senators
http://senateconservatives.com/callsheet?c=O24D0A14518868E (E-mail links are provided at this site, but are not included with this post—my addition.)
Senator; State; Political Party; D.C. telephone #
001) Begich, Mark AK D (202) 224-3004
002) Murkowski, Lisa AK R (202) 224-6665
003) Sessions, Jeff AL R (202) 224-4124
004) Shelby, Richard C. AL R (202) 224-5744
005) Pryor, Mark L. AR D (202) 224-2353
006) Lincoln, Blanche L. AR D (202) 224-4843
007) McCain, John AZ R (202) 224-2235
008) Kyl, Jon AZ R (202) 224-4521
009) Feinstein, Dianne CA D (202) 224-3841
010) Boxer, Barbara CA D (202) 224-3553
011) Udall, Mark CO D (202) 224-5941
012) Bennet, Michael F. CO D (202) 224-5852
013) Dodd, Christopher J. CT D (202) 224-2823
014) Lieberman, Joseph I. CT ID (202) 224-4041
015) Carper, Thomas R. DE D (202) 224-2441
016) Coons, Christopher A. DE D (202) 224-5042
017) LeMieux, George S. FL R (202) 224-3041
018) Nelson, Bill FL D (202) 224-5274
019) Chambliss, Saxby GA R (202) 224-3521
020) Isakson, Johnny GA R (202) 224-3643
021) Inouye, Daniel K. HI D (202) 224-3934
022) Akaka, Daniel K. HI D (202) 224-6361
023) Harkin, Tom IA D (202) 224-3254
024) Grassley, Chuck IA R (202) 224-3744
025) Risch, James E. ID R (202) 224-2752
026) Crapo, Mike ID R (202) 224-6142
027) Kirk, Mark IL R (202) 224-2854
028) Durbin, Richard J. IL D (202) 224-2152
029) Lugar, Richard G. IN R (202) 224-4814
030) Bayh, Evan IN D (202) 224-5623
031) Brownback, Sam KS R (202) 224-6521
032) Roberts, Pat KS R (202) 224-4774
033) McConnell, Mitch KY R (202) 224-2541
034) Bunning, Jim KY R (202) 224-4343
035) Landrieu, Mary L. LA D (202) 224-5824
036) Vitter, David LA R (202) 224-4623
037) Brown, Scott P. MA R (202) 224-4543
038) Kerry, John F. MA D (202) 224-2742
039) Cardin, Benjamin L. MD D (202) 224-4524
040) Mikulski, Barbara A. MD D (202) 224-4654 (202)
041) Snowe, Olympia J. ME R (202) 224-5344
042) Collins, Susan M. ME R (202) 224-2523
043) Stabenow, Debbie MI D (202) 224-4822
044) Levin, Carl MI D (202) 224-6221
045) Klobuchar, Amy MN D (202) 224-3244
046) Franken, Al MN D (202) 224-5641
047) McCaskill, Claire MO D (202) 224-6154
048) Bond, Christopher S. MO R (202) 224-5721
049) Wicker, Roger F. MS R (202) 224-6253
050) Cochran, Thad MS R (202) 224-5054
051) Tester, Jon MT D (202) 224-2644
052) Baucus, Max MT D (202) 224-2651
053) Burr, Richard NC R (202) 224-3154
054) Hagan, Kay R. NC D (202) 224-6342
055) Dorgan, Byron L. ND D (202) 224-2551
056) Conrad, Kent ND D (202) 224-2043
057) Nelson, Ben NE D (202) 224-6551
058) Johanns, Mike NE R (202) 224-4224
059) Shaheen, Jeanne NH D (202) 224-2841
060) Gregg, Judd NH R (202) 224-3324
061) Menendez, Robert NJ D (202) 224-4744
062) Lautenberg, Frank R. NJ D (202) 224-3224
063) Bingaman, Jeff NM D (202) 224-5521
064) Udall, Tom NM D (202) 224-6621
065) Ensign, John NV R (202) 224-6244
066) Reid, Harry NV D (202) 224-3542
067) Schumer, Charles E. NY D (202) 224-6542
068) Gillibrand, Kirsten E. NY D (202) 224-4451
069) Brown, Sherrod OH D (202) 224-2315
070) Voinovich, George V. OH R (202) 224-3353
071) Inhofe, James M. OK R (202) 224-4721
072) Coburn, Tom OK R (202) 224-5754 073)
073) Wyden, Ron OR D (202) 224-5244
074) Merkley, Jeff OR D (202) 224-3753
075) Specter, Arlen PA D (202) 224-4254
076) Casey, Robert P., Jr. PA D (202) 224-6324
077) Whitehouse, Sheldon RI D (202) 224-2921
078) Reed, Jack RI D (202) 224-4642
079) DeMint, Jim SC R (202) 224-6121
080) Graham, Lindsey SC R (202) 224-5972
081) Johnson, Tim SD D (202) 224-5842
082) Thune, John SD R (202) 224-2321
083) Corker, Bob TN R (202) 224-3344
084) Alexander, Lamar TN R (202) 224-4944
085) Cornyn, John TX R (202) 224-2934
086) Hutchison, Kay Bailey TX R (202) 224-5922
087) Bennett, Robert F. UT R (202) 224-5444
088) Hatch, Orrin G. UT R (202) 224-5251
089) Warner, Mark R. VA D (202) 224-2023
090) Webb, Jim VA D (202) 224-4024
091) Leahy, Patrick J. VT D (202) 224-4242
092) Sanders, Bernard VT I (202) 224-5141
093) Murray, Patty WA D (202) 224-2621
094) Cantwell, Maria WA D (202) 224-3441
095) Kohl, Herb WI D (202) 224-5653
096) Feingold, Russell D. WI D (202) 224-5323
097) Rockefeller, John D., IV WV D (202) 224-6472
098) Manchin, Joe, III WV D (202) 224-3954
099) Barrasso, John WY R (202) 224-6441
100) Enzi, Michael B. WY R (202) 224-3424
The ability to protect ourselves and our allies is not an insignificant matter to be hidden away. It wasn’t long ago that Russia was taking hostile action against our friend Georgia and wielding its energy as a weapon against its neighbors.
Even with those events in recent memory, Foreign Relations chairman Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who is ushering the treaty through the Senate, could not fathom why the United States would want the ability to defeat Russian missiles.
During the same hearing at which Clinton brushed aside the request for the negotiating records, I asked Kerry, ‘Is it not desirable for us to have a missile-defense system that renders their threat useless?’
He said, ‘I don’t personally think so, no.’
In his March 1983 ‘Star Wars’ speech, Ronald Reagan called upon members of the scientific community ‘to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.’ The goal of New START, by contrast, is to ensure that the U.S. and Russia have an equal capacity to destroy each other.
Of course, the world has changed dramatically since Reagan gave that speech. Today, the United States must be vigilant about attacks that could come from many different points on the globe, not just Russia. Nations like Iran, Syria, and North Korea pose the greatest nuclear threat to the United States.
New START dampens our ability to defend against missile attacks and makes America and her allies vulnerable to those rogue nations. It would be a mistake for the Senate to ratify it, and I will do everything I can to stop it.
Respectfully,
Jim DeMint
United States Senator
Chairman, Senate Conservatives Fund
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Even without the above information, conservatives should be/MUST be opposed to this Treaty. Why is the Barack Hussein Obama Administration trying to ram this Treaty through during a lame duck session. The answer should be obvious. It is believed that the Treaty will NOT pass under a new Senate that has more conservative Senators as members. The Administration fears the new Senators and wants this passed before the voice of the people can be heard directly within the Senate. Given the actions of this Administration over the last two years including passing Obamacare in the Senate on Christmas Eve, do you TRUST this Administration to have negotiated a Treaty with Russia that WILL NOT be harmful to American interests? I DON’T!!!
I heard on FOX news radio at 5:00AM that the Treaty may be voted on today. Also, some Republicans, who were not named, have signaled that they will vote FOR the Treaty. Why are they not waiting for the new Senate. Republican votes are absolutely needed to pass the treaty since it takes a 2/3rds vote of Senators present and voting to pass a Treaty.
Once more, we need to man the phones to stop this Administration from doing EVIL and going against we the people. The Senate will NOT hold a vote unless Harry Reid thinks the Treaty will be approved.
CALL! PRAY! STAY INVOLVED! OUTLAST this lame duck session! Take Back the Nation!
From: Conservative Senators Fund
“Dear Fellow Conservatives:
The nuclear-weapons treaty President Obama has negotiated with the Russians may help him make America’s erstwhile Cold War adversary happy, but it won’t help protect us from the rogue nations that threaten the United States today.
Today, the Senate will begin debating the New START treaty. Democrats want to jam it through with a flock of lame ducks. If ratified, it will force the U.S. to agree to strategic-nuclear-weapons parity with Russia, the direct descendant of a nation that threatened our country’s existence for decades. Who would have thought in the year 2010 the United States would be renewing its Cold War-era policy of mutually assured destruction with Russia?
Mutually assured destruction was a frightening policy that kept two superpowers paralyzed in a nuclear game of chicken. Both countries knew they would be destroyed if they attacked first, and so neither country attacked.
But it’s not a one-on-one game anymore. The U.S. faces threats from China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea in addition to Russia, and the treaty will have no effect on the nuclear-arms-building capabilities of these countries. And New START could hamper our ability to improve our missile-defense system—leaving us unable to destroy more than a handful of missiles at a time and vulnerable to attacks from around the globe.
Click Here to Contact Your Senators
http://senateconservatives.com/callsheet?c=O24D0A14518868E (E-mail links are provided at this site, but are not included with this post—my addition.)
Senator; State; Political Party; D.C. telephone #
001) Begich, Mark AK D (202) 224-3004
002) Murkowski, Lisa AK R (202) 224-6665
003) Sessions, Jeff AL R (202) 224-4124
004) Shelby, Richard C. AL R (202) 224-5744
005) Pryor, Mark L. AR D (202) 224-2353
006) Lincoln, Blanche L. AR D (202) 224-4843
007) McCain, John AZ R (202) 224-2235
008) Kyl, Jon AZ R (202) 224-4521
009) Feinstein, Dianne CA D (202) 224-3841
010) Boxer, Barbara CA D (202) 224-3553
011) Udall, Mark CO D (202) 224-5941
012) Bennet, Michael F. CO D (202) 224-5852
013) Dodd, Christopher J. CT D (202) 224-2823
014) Lieberman, Joseph I. CT ID (202) 224-4041
015) Carper, Thomas R. DE D (202) 224-2441
016) Coons, Christopher A. DE D (202) 224-5042
017) LeMieux, George S. FL R (202) 224-3041
018) Nelson, Bill FL D (202) 224-5274
019) Chambliss, Saxby GA R (202) 224-3521
020) Isakson, Johnny GA R (202) 224-3643
021) Inouye, Daniel K. HI D (202) 224-3934
022) Akaka, Daniel K. HI D (202) 224-6361
023) Harkin, Tom IA D (202) 224-3254
024) Grassley, Chuck IA R (202) 224-3744
025) Risch, James E. ID R (202) 224-2752
026) Crapo, Mike ID R (202) 224-6142
027) Kirk, Mark IL R (202) 224-2854
028) Durbin, Richard J. IL D (202) 224-2152
029) Lugar, Richard G. IN R (202) 224-4814
030) Bayh, Evan IN D (202) 224-5623
031) Brownback, Sam KS R (202) 224-6521
032) Roberts, Pat KS R (202) 224-4774
033) McConnell, Mitch KY R (202) 224-2541
034) Bunning, Jim KY R (202) 224-4343
035) Landrieu, Mary L. LA D (202) 224-5824
036) Vitter, David LA R (202) 224-4623
037) Brown, Scott P. MA R (202) 224-4543
038) Kerry, John F. MA D (202) 224-2742
039) Cardin, Benjamin L. MD D (202) 224-4524
040) Mikulski, Barbara A. MD D (202) 224-4654 (202)
041) Snowe, Olympia J. ME R (202) 224-5344
042) Collins, Susan M. ME R (202) 224-2523
043) Stabenow, Debbie MI D (202) 224-4822
044) Levin, Carl MI D (202) 224-6221
045) Klobuchar, Amy MN D (202) 224-3244
046) Franken, Al MN D (202) 224-5641
047) McCaskill, Claire MO D (202) 224-6154
048) Bond, Christopher S. MO R (202) 224-5721
049) Wicker, Roger F. MS R (202) 224-6253
050) Cochran, Thad MS R (202) 224-5054
051) Tester, Jon MT D (202) 224-2644
052) Baucus, Max MT D (202) 224-2651
053) Burr, Richard NC R (202) 224-3154
054) Hagan, Kay R. NC D (202) 224-6342
055) Dorgan, Byron L. ND D (202) 224-2551
056) Conrad, Kent ND D (202) 224-2043
057) Nelson, Ben NE D (202) 224-6551
058) Johanns, Mike NE R (202) 224-4224
059) Shaheen, Jeanne NH D (202) 224-2841
060) Gregg, Judd NH R (202) 224-3324
061) Menendez, Robert NJ D (202) 224-4744
062) Lautenberg, Frank R. NJ D (202) 224-3224
063) Bingaman, Jeff NM D (202) 224-5521
064) Udall, Tom NM D (202) 224-6621
065) Ensign, John NV R (202) 224-6244
066) Reid, Harry NV D (202) 224-3542
067) Schumer, Charles E. NY D (202) 224-6542
068) Gillibrand, Kirsten E. NY D (202) 224-4451
069) Brown, Sherrod OH D (202) 224-2315
070) Voinovich, George V. OH R (202) 224-3353
071) Inhofe, James M. OK R (202) 224-4721
072) Coburn, Tom OK R (202) 224-5754 073)
073) Wyden, Ron OR D (202) 224-5244
074) Merkley, Jeff OR D (202) 224-3753
075) Specter, Arlen PA D (202) 224-4254
076) Casey, Robert P., Jr. PA D (202) 224-6324
077) Whitehouse, Sheldon RI D (202) 224-2921
078) Reed, Jack RI D (202) 224-4642
079) DeMint, Jim SC R (202) 224-6121
080) Graham, Lindsey SC R (202) 224-5972
081) Johnson, Tim SD D (202) 224-5842
082) Thune, John SD R (202) 224-2321
083) Corker, Bob TN R (202) 224-3344
084) Alexander, Lamar TN R (202) 224-4944
085) Cornyn, John TX R (202) 224-2934
086) Hutchison, Kay Bailey TX R (202) 224-5922
087) Bennett, Robert F. UT R (202) 224-5444
088) Hatch, Orrin G. UT R (202) 224-5251
089) Warner, Mark R. VA D (202) 224-2023
090) Webb, Jim VA D (202) 224-4024
091) Leahy, Patrick J. VT D (202) 224-4242
092) Sanders, Bernard VT I (202) 224-5141
093) Murray, Patty WA D (202) 224-2621
094) Cantwell, Maria WA D (202) 224-3441
095) Kohl, Herb WI D (202) 224-5653
096) Feingold, Russell D. WI D (202) 224-5323
097) Rockefeller, John D., IV WV D (202) 224-6472
098) Manchin, Joe, III WV D (202) 224-3954
099) Barrasso, John WY R (202) 224-6441
100) Enzi, Michael B. WY R (202) 224-3424
Additionally, the treaty favors Russia when it comes to tactical nuclear weapons, which are developed for use on the battlefield. Russia’s stockpile of tactical nuclear weapons, which can be affixed to rockets, submarines, and bomber planes, outnumbers the United States’ by a ratio of 10: 1. These are not covered by the treaty—New START covers only strategic, long-range, high-yield nuclear weapons—leaving Russia able to keep its current advantage and produce more of these weapons at will.
New START also fails on another important front: It doesn’t recognize the fact that Russia and the United States play very different roles in the world. Russia is a threat to many and a protector of none. The United States, on the other hand, is a threat to none and a protector of many. More than 30 nations, many in the former Soviet bloc, depend on the U.S. for their security. The New START treaty does not reflect that obligation. It ignores it.
It’s no secret that the Russians do not want the United States or her allies to be protected by missile defense, and believe that New START forbids further development of missile defense. Last December, in the midst of the treaty’s negotiations, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, ‘By building such an umbrella over themselves, our partners [the U.S.] could feel themselves fully secure and will do whatever they want, which upsets the balance and the aggressiveness immediately increases in real politics and economics.’ After the treaty was signed, the Russians effectively declared victory on the matter. Their government issued a statement that the treaty ‘can operate and be viable only if the United States refrains from developing its missile defense capabilities quantitatively or qualitatively.’
President Obama insists this is not the case, but he and the Russians can’t have it both ways: New START either permits the United States to expand its missile-defense capability or does not.
The treaty’s negotiating records would provide some much-needed clarity. The Obama administration, however, is refusing to provide them to the Senate. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dismissed a request for them during a recent Senate Foreign Relations hearing. She claimed that negotiating records haven’t been provided ‘going back to, I think, President Washington.’
This is not accurate; precedent exists for giving the Senate access to review these records. At the request of Sen. Sam Nunn (D., Ga.), negotiating records were provided to the Senate for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union. What is the administration trying to hide? No action should be taken toward ratifying the New START treaty until the White House provides these documents.
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http://senateconservatives.com/callsheet?c=O24D0A14518868E (E-mail links are provided at this site, but are not included with this post—my addition.)
Senator; State; Political Party; D.C. telephone #
001) Begich, Mark AK D (202) 224-3004
002) Murkowski, Lisa AK R (202) 224-6665
003) Sessions, Jeff AL R (202) 224-4124
004) Shelby, Richard C. AL R (202) 224-5744
005) Pryor, Mark L. AR D (202) 224-2353
006) Lincoln, Blanche L. AR D (202) 224-4843
007) McCain, John AZ R (202) 224-2235
008) Kyl, Jon AZ R (202) 224-4521
009) Feinstein, Dianne CA D (202) 224-3841
010) Boxer, Barbara CA D (202) 224-3553
011) Udall, Mark CO D (202) 224-5941
012) Bennet, Michael F. CO D (202) 224-5852
013) Dodd, Christopher J. CT D (202) 224-2823
014) Lieberman, Joseph I. CT ID (202) 224-4041
015) Carper, Thomas R. DE D (202) 224-2441
016) Coons, Christopher A. DE D (202) 224-5042
017) LeMieux, George S. FL R (202) 224-3041
018) Nelson, Bill FL D (202) 224-5274
019) Chambliss, Saxby GA R (202) 224-3521
020) Isakson, Johnny GA R (202) 224-3643
021) Inouye, Daniel K. HI D (202) 224-3934
022) Akaka, Daniel K. HI D (202) 224-6361
023) Harkin, Tom IA D (202) 224-3254
024) Grassley, Chuck IA R (202) 224-3744
025) Risch, James E. ID R (202) 224-2752
026) Crapo, Mike ID R (202) 224-6142
027) Kirk, Mark IL R (202) 224-2854
028) Durbin, Richard J. IL D (202) 224-2152
029) Lugar, Richard G. IN R (202) 224-4814
030) Bayh, Evan IN D (202) 224-5623
031) Brownback, Sam KS R (202) 224-6521
032) Roberts, Pat KS R (202) 224-4774
033) McConnell, Mitch KY R (202) 224-2541
034) Bunning, Jim KY R (202) 224-4343
035) Landrieu, Mary L. LA D (202) 224-5824
036) Vitter, David LA R (202) 224-4623
037) Brown, Scott P. MA R (202) 224-4543
038) Kerry, John F. MA D (202) 224-2742
039) Cardin, Benjamin L. MD D (202) 224-4524
040) Mikulski, Barbara A. MD D (202) 224-4654 (202)
041) Snowe, Olympia J. ME R (202) 224-5344
042) Collins, Susan M. ME R (202) 224-2523
043) Stabenow, Debbie MI D (202) 224-4822
044) Levin, Carl MI D (202) 224-6221
045) Klobuchar, Amy MN D (202) 224-3244
046) Franken, Al MN D (202) 224-5641
047) McCaskill, Claire MO D (202) 224-6154
048) Bond, Christopher S. MO R (202) 224-5721
049) Wicker, Roger F. MS R (202) 224-6253
050) Cochran, Thad MS R (202) 224-5054
051) Tester, Jon MT D (202) 224-2644
052) Baucus, Max MT D (202) 224-2651
053) Burr, Richard NC R (202) 224-3154
054) Hagan, Kay R. NC D (202) 224-6342
055) Dorgan, Byron L. ND D (202) 224-2551
056) Conrad, Kent ND D (202) 224-2043
057) Nelson, Ben NE D (202) 224-6551
058) Johanns, Mike NE R (202) 224-4224
059) Shaheen, Jeanne NH D (202) 224-2841
060) Gregg, Judd NH R (202) 224-3324
061) Menendez, Robert NJ D (202) 224-4744
062) Lautenberg, Frank R. NJ D (202) 224-3224
063) Bingaman, Jeff NM D (202) 224-5521
064) Udall, Tom NM D (202) 224-6621
065) Ensign, John NV R (202) 224-6244
066) Reid, Harry NV D (202) 224-3542
067) Schumer, Charles E. NY D (202) 224-6542
068) Gillibrand, Kirsten E. NY D (202) 224-4451
069) Brown, Sherrod OH D (202) 224-2315
070) Voinovich, George V. OH R (202) 224-3353
071) Inhofe, James M. OK R (202) 224-4721
072) Coburn, Tom OK R (202) 224-5754 073)
073) Wyden, Ron OR D (202) 224-5244
074) Merkley, Jeff OR D (202) 224-3753
075) Specter, Arlen PA D (202) 224-4254
076) Casey, Robert P., Jr. PA D (202) 224-6324
077) Whitehouse, Sheldon RI D (202) 224-2921
078) Reed, Jack RI D (202) 224-4642
079) DeMint, Jim SC R (202) 224-6121
080) Graham, Lindsey SC R (202) 224-5972
081) Johnson, Tim SD D (202) 224-5842
082) Thune, John SD R (202) 224-2321
083) Corker, Bob TN R (202) 224-3344
084) Alexander, Lamar TN R (202) 224-4944
085) Cornyn, John TX R (202) 224-2934
086) Hutchison, Kay Bailey TX R (202) 224-5922
087) Bennett, Robert F. UT R (202) 224-5444
088) Hatch, Orrin G. UT R (202) 224-5251
089) Warner, Mark R. VA D (202) 224-2023
090) Webb, Jim VA D (202) 224-4024
091) Leahy, Patrick J. VT D (202) 224-4242
092) Sanders, Bernard VT I (202) 224-5141
093) Murray, Patty WA D (202) 224-2621
094) Cantwell, Maria WA D (202) 224-3441
095) Kohl, Herb WI D (202) 224-5653
096) Feingold, Russell D. WI D (202) 224-5323
097) Rockefeller, John D., IV WV D (202) 224-6472
098) Manchin, Joe, III WV D (202) 224-3954
099) Barrasso, John WY R (202) 224-6441
100) Enzi, Michael B. WY R (202) 224-3424
The ability to protect ourselves and our allies is not an insignificant matter to be hidden away. It wasn’t long ago that Russia was taking hostile action against our friend Georgia and wielding its energy as a weapon against its neighbors.
Even with those events in recent memory, Foreign Relations chairman Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who is ushering the treaty through the Senate, could not fathom why the United States would want the ability to defeat Russian missiles.
During the same hearing at which Clinton brushed aside the request for the negotiating records, I asked Kerry, ‘Is it not desirable for us to have a missile-defense system that renders their threat useless?’
He said, ‘I don’t personally think so, no.’
In his March 1983 ‘Star Wars’ speech, Ronald Reagan called upon members of the scientific community ‘to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.’ The goal of New START, by contrast, is to ensure that the U.S. and Russia have an equal capacity to destroy each other.
Of course, the world has changed dramatically since Reagan gave that speech. Today, the United States must be vigilant about attacks that could come from many different points on the globe, not just Russia. Nations like Iran, Syria, and North Korea pose the greatest nuclear threat to the United States.
New START dampens our ability to defend against missile attacks and makes America and her allies vulnerable to those rogue nations. It would be a mistake for the Senate to ratify it, and I will do everything I can to stop it.
Respectfully,
Jim DeMint
United States Senator
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Even without the above information, conservatives should be/MUST be opposed to this Treaty. Why is the Barack Hussein Obama Administration trying to ram this Treaty through during a lame duck session. The answer should be obvious. It is believed that the Treaty will NOT pass under a new Senate that has more conservative Senators as members. The Administration fears the new Senators and wants this passed before the voice of the people can be heard directly within the Senate. Given the actions of this Administration over the last two years including passing Obamacare in the Senate on Christmas Eve, do you TRUST this Administration to have negotiated a Treaty with Russia that WILL NOT be harmful to American interests? I DON’T!!!
I heard on FOX news radio at 5:00AM that the Treaty may be voted on today. Also, some Republicans, who were not named, have signaled that they will vote FOR the Treaty. Why are they not waiting for the new Senate. Republican votes are absolutely needed to pass the treaty since it takes a 2/3rds vote of Senators present and voting to pass a Treaty.
Once more, we need to man the phones to stop this Administration from doing EVIL and going against we the people. The Senate will NOT hold a vote unless Harry Reid thinks the Treaty will be approved.
CALL! PRAY! STAY INVOLVED! OUTLAST this lame duck session! Take Back the Nation!
posted by Christian Gunslinger at 7:11 AM
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