“Mayor Booker and Congressman Holt have shown a true commitment to pursuing a common sense national security policy that reduces the expenditure of taxpayer dollars on wasteful and outdated nuclear weapons,� John Isaacs, executive director of Council for a Livable World, said in a statement.

The Council for a Livable World, another arms control group, lauded Feinstein for at least not cutting the nonproliferation office as much as the administration had wanted.

“The most important thing he could do is lay out the broad agenda for the next three and a half years,� said John Isaacs, executive director of the Council for a Livable World, an advocacy group.

“The most important thing he could do is lay out the broad agenda for the next three and a half years,� said John Isaacs, executive director of the Council for a Livable World, an advocacy group.

For Obama, “these are all high hills to climb,” said John D. Isaacs, executive director of the Council for a Livable World, an arms control advocacy group in Washington. His group is urging Obama to take unilateral steps to reduce U.S. reliance on nuclear weapons.