I do not want to vote for this, because if there is a program that is diminishing the nuclear threat to our country... However, I learned that the Russians are modernizing their nuclear capability. How does that diminish the threat to our country? It enhances it. So with one hand we are giving them money to sweep away the old stuff, the garbage, and then free up their own money to develop and modernize a nuclear threat.
Addressing concerns about an amendment related to nuclear threat reduction and Russian nuclear modernization.
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