The proposal contained in this letter constitutes an indication of our interest in pursuing a transaction and does not constitute a binding offer, agreement or agreement to proceed with the transaction or to otherwise make a binding offer or agreement at any point in the future.
So these are not terribly different approaches, but the binding effort, the binding essence is going to be the sticking point, I think, in negotiations between the House and Senate.
Start made dramatic reductions in nuclear forces of some 80% but the key point at this moment is that it contains binding agreements on verification and when the treaty runs out so do those commitments.
Because she says sometimes in her experience the Russians have taken language, even non-binding preamble language like in the START treaty, and used it to justify an argument or a point of view.