[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 747 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 747

 To require the President to notify the Congress of certain arms sales 
 to Saudi Arabia until certain outstanding commercial disputes between 
    United States nationals and the Government of Saudi Arabia are 
                               resolved.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                  May 3 (legislative day, May 1), 1995

  Mr. D'Amato (for himself and Mr. Moynihan) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign 
                               Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the President to notify the Congress of certain arms sales 
 to Saudi Arabia until certain outstanding commercial disputes between 
    United States nationals and the Government of Saudi Arabia are 
                               resolved.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. NOTIFICATION OF ARMS SALES.

    Until the certification under section 2 is submitted to the 
Congress, section 36(b)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act shall be 
applied to sales to Saudi Arabia by substituting in the first sentence 
``$10,000,000'' for ``$50,000,000'', ``$560,000,000'' for 
``$200,000,000'', and ``$2,000,000'' for ``$14,000,000''.

SEC. 2. CERTIFICATION.

    Section 1 shall cease to apply if and when the Secretary of States 
certifies and reports in writing to the Congress that the unpaid claims 
of American firms against the Government of Saudi Arabia that are 
described in the June 30, 1993, report by the Secretary of Defense 
pursuant to section 9140(c) of the Department of Defense Appropriations 
Act, 1993 (Public Law 102-396; 106 Stat. 1939), including the 
additional claims noticed by the Department of Commerce on page 2 of 
that report, have been resolved satisfactorily.
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