March 16, 2015 Dear Member of Congress, We are writing to urge you to sign on to the Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures (SANE) Act of 2015. The legislation’s lead sponsors are Senators Ed Markey (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR). Maintaining the U.S. nuclear force within increasingly tight budgets will require the […]
25 Organizations Support Reducing Nuclear Spending
Dear Member of Congress, We are writing to urge you to sign on to the Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures (SANE) Act of 2015. The legislation’s lead sponsors are Senators Ed Markey (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR). Maintaining the U.S. nuclear force within increasingly tight budgets will require the United States to […]
Policy Director Laicie Heeley Featured on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to Discuss GOP Letter to Iran
McCain Blames Snowstorm for Letter to Iran March 16, 2015 Watch Laicie Heeley on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” as she discusses the letter written by 47 GOP Senators to the leaders of Iran in a last-ditch effort to scuttle nuclear negotiations. Click here to watch the interview on MSNBC.
Front and Center – March 14
An update on arms control, national security & politics from Council for a Livable World and the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. WHAT’S NEW: A Letter of Your Own In a rare national media consensus, news outlets across the country unanimously derided the 47 Republican Senators’ “open letter” to Iran as an outrageous stunt […]
The Big Bad Sequester Wolf
Sequestration, the budget mechanism that kicks in if and only if Congress does not budget to the caps set under the 2011 Budget Control Act, has been framed as the big bad wolf of Washington. But this frequent mischaracterization of sequestration as a vague, threatening entity neglects a key facet of budget construction: sequestration won’t kick in unless Congress fails to do its job.