House leaders are raising concerns over Moscow’s noncompliance with a strategic nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia as relations between the two countries sour amid the war in Ukraine.
The Republican chairmen of the Armed Services, Foreign Affairs and Intelligence committees are calling on the Biden administration to submit a determination to Congress as to whether the Kremlin is in breach of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty or START after a Russian delegation in November abruptly pulled out of nuclear talks known as the Bilateral Consultative Commission.
The lawmakers — Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers of Alabama, Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael T.