New START Headed for Lame Duck?

James Carafano / September 17, 2010

On Thursday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to report New START, which is a strategic nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, out of committee and to the full Senate for consideration.

Talk is that the Administration will press for a vote in lame duck after the election, but some suggest Senate leadership might even try to sneak the treaty through before that. The committee did not make the Senate’s job any easier sending New START to the floor with lots of unanswered questions, an insufficient resolution of ratification, and new controversies about intelligence findings on Russian cheating over arms control. Furthermore, U.S. Senate requests to view the full negotiating record for the treaty were left unanswered. (more…)