City Council support of Representative McGovern Resolution on nuclear deproliferation

How it started

Aug 4, 2025 · Proposed by Councillors Nolan, Sobrinho-Wheeler, and McGovern and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Aug 4, 2025 · ✅ Order adopted as amended (unanimous · one absent)

Voted yes (8), unanimous

Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
Cathie Zusy

Absent (1)

E. Denise Simmons

Roll call of Aug 4, 2025 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

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Rep. James McGovern and at least 26 other Representatives have submitted H. Res. 317, a resolution calling for the President and other elected officials to the House of Representatives to: (1) actively pursue a world free of nuclear weapons as a national security imperative; and (2) lead a global effort to move the world back from the nuclear brink, halt and reverse a global nuclear arms race, and prevent nuclear war; now therefore be it

RESOLVED: That the Cambridge City Council go on record in support of H. Res. 317 and hereby requests that Representatives Katherine Clark and Ayanna Pressley co-sponsor and lead support of Rep. McGovern's H. Res. 317; and be it further

RESOLVED: That the Cambridge City Council hereby requests that Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Edward Markey introduce a companion resolution in the Senate to H. Res. 317; and be it further

ORDERED: That the City Clerk be and hereby is requested to forward a suitably engrossed copy of this resolution to the Cambridge federal delegation on behalf of the entire City Council.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Aug 4, 2025