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NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997

KYL AMENDMENTS NOS. 4278-4280

(Senate - June 26, 1996)

[Page: S7030]

(Ordered to lie on the table.)

Mr. KYL submitted three amendments intended to be proposed by him to the bill (S. 1745) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military activities to the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; as follows:

Amendment No. 4280

At the end of subtitle C of title II, add the following:

SEC. 237. REQUIREMENT THAT MULTILATERALIZATION OF THE ABM TREATY BE DONE ONLY THROUGH TREATY-MAKING POWER.

Any addition of a new signatory party to the ABM Treaty (in addition to the United States and the Russian Federation) constitutes an amendment to the treaty that can only be agreed to by the United States through the treaty-making power of the United States. No funds appropriated or otherwise available for any fiscal year may be obligated or expended for the purpose of implementing or making binding upon the United States the participation of any additional nation as a party to the ABM Treaty unless that nation is made a party to the treaty by an amendment to the Treaty that is made in the same manner as the manner by which a treaty is made.