Motion · S5M-19665 · 30 Oct 2019
US Congress and the SANE Act
The motion
That the Parliament notes that the Co-Presidents of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), Senator Ed Markey and Congressman Earl Blumenauer are reintroducing legislation in the US Congress that would cut $75 billion from the United States' nuclear weapons budget over the next decade; is aware that the Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures (SANE) Act being proposed is intended to improve national security and budgetary sanity by cutting redundant and destabilising nuclear weapons programmes, and notes that this is being timed to coincide with UN Disarmament Week and the Count the Nuclear Weapons action taking place in New York, where $1 trillion in facsimile bills will be counted to show the level of monies that is considered to be squandered by nuclear weapons' states on the upgrading of nuclear weapons, instead of being spent on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Supporters (20)
- Bob Doris Scottish National Party 31 Oct 2019
- James Dornan 31 Oct 2019
- Kenneth Gibson No Party Affiliation 31 Oct 2019
- Emma Harper 31 Oct 2019
- Richard Lyle 31 Oct 2019
- Fulton MacGregor Scottish National Party 31 Oct 2019
- Rona Mackay 31 Oct 2019
- Mark McDonald 31 Oct 2019
- Stuart McMillan Scottish National Party 31 Oct 2019
- Gil Paterson 31 Oct 2019
- David Torrance Scottish National Party 31 Oct 2019
- Sandra White 31 Oct 2019
- Tom Arthur Scottish National Party 1 Nov 2019
- Jenny Gilruth Scottish National Party 1 Nov 2019
- Stewart Stevenson 1 Nov 2019
- John Mason 2 Nov 2019
- Gillian Martin Scottish National Party 6 Nov 2019
- John Finnie 7 Nov 2019
- Ruth Maguire 8 Nov 2019
- Joan McAlpine 14 Nov 2019
Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.