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Legislation

Schedual for Congress in 2008

Outcomes from '07

Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW)
Rep. Steve Pearce's last ditch effort to restore some funding for a new nuclear warhead design has failed. Pearce, a Republican from New Mexico's southern congressoinal district, had introduced an amendment to the FY 2009 National Defense Authorization Act that would have restored $10 million for the Reliable Replacment Warhead (RRW).
Roll Call

Highlights of Congressional Action in 2007 on National Security & Nuclear Weapons

Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) Program
Administration Request: $88.8 million for the Department of Energy; $30 million for the Department of Defense, for a total of $118.8 million
Final Action: $0 for the Department of Energy; $15 million for the Department of Defense

Reprocessing Nuclear Waste
Administration Request: $405 million
Final Action: $179 million (as part of Department of Energy Appropriations)

Total Funding for Nonproliferation Programs (including programs funded through the Defense Department, State Department, and Department of Energy)
Administration Request: 3.36 billion
Final Action: 3.683 billion

Notable Threat Reduction Programs Included Within the Above Totals
Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar Program)
Administration Request: $348 million
Final Action: $428 million

Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI)
Administration Request: $115.5 million
Final Action: $195 million (as part of Department of Energy appropriations)

International Nuclear Material Protection & Cooperation
Administration Request: $371 million
Final Action: $603.2 million (as part of Department of Energy appropriations)

Space Test Bed (i.e. space-based missile defense)
Administration Request: $10 million
Final Action: $0

Missile Defense Programs
Administration Request: $10.3 billion (includes missile defense, research and development, and procurement)
Final Action: $9.9 billion ($85 million was ultimately cut from the $310 million requested to begin deployment of anti-missile interceptors in Poland and an associated radar in the
Czech Republic)

Conventional Trident Modification Program (to equip Trident II submarine-launched long-range missiles with non-nuclear warheads)
Administration Request: $175 million
Final Action: $0 ($100 million was appropriated solely for alternatives to the

Conventional Trident Modification Program)
Democracy Promotion in Iran (i.e. regime change slush fund)
Administration Request: $108.71 million
Final Action: $60 million (as part of Foreign Operations Appropriations)

Total Defense Spending (excluding the conduct of ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan)
Administration Request: $452.2 billion
Final Action: $448.7 billion