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    Vote on US-Russia arms treaty put off to Sep.

    (Agencies)
    Updated: 2010-08-04 09:36
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    WASHINGTON - The chairman of a US Senate committee on Tuesday delayed a vote on the new arms control treaty with Russia until at least mid-September, after months of effort to win backers produced scant Republican support.

    Democratic Senator John Kerry had wanted the committee to vote on the new START treaty before the August recess that starts at the end of this week. He said he would bow to the requests of senators for more time to study the document.

    President Barack Obama signed the strategic arms agreement with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April and sent it to the Senate in May. Obama said he would like to see the Senate ratify it this year.

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    The treaty will need 67 votes to clear the Senate, meaning at least eight Republican votes are needed. Only one Republican, Richard Lugar, has so far publicly supported it, and in recent weeks, the treaty has drawn more Republican criticism as partisan rhetoric heats up ahead of November 2 congressional elections.

    The agreement would cut the number of nuclear warheads deployed in the United States and Russia by about 30 percent.

    "My interest is not in trying to jam this through," Kerry told the committee at a business meeting. "I respect every senator's right to further examine it."

    Kerry warned that without the treaty, there was no system in place to verify the two countries' nuclear arsenals, by far the world's largest. He said he hopes members can vote on it on September 15 or 16 shortly after returning from a recess.

    LUGAR RESTATES SUPPORT

    Lugar told the panel he had been prepared to vote now and "let the chips fall where they may." The treaty was needed because such documents provided "some visibility of what is going on" in Russia's nuclear arsenal, he said.

    "At some point we need to think about the United States of America and our security interests," Lugar said.

    Lugar's support meant the treaty would have been approved by the committee had it held the vote this week. But a panel vote might have irritated other Republicans, whose Senate leaders have been calling for more time.

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