[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3681 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3681

  To require the Secretary of State to submit to Congress classified 
 dissent cables relating to the withdrawal of the United States Armed 
                        Forces from Afghanistan.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 17, 2022

   Mr. Thune (for himself, Mr. Risch, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Braun, Mr. 
 Cramer, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Daines, Ms. Ernst, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Hoeven, 
 Mr. Rubio, Mr. Scott of South Carolina, Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. Wicker) 
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 Secretary of State to submit to Congress classified 
 dissent cables relating to the withdrawal of the United States Armed 
                        Forces from Afghanistan.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS OF DISSENT CABLES RELATING TO 
              WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES FROM 
              AFGHANISTAN.

    (a) Submission of Classified Dissent Cables to Congress.--Not later 
than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of State shall submit to Congress any classified Department of State 
cable or memo that expresses a dissenting recommendation or opinion 
with respect to the withdrawal of the United States Armed Forces from 
Afghanistan.
    (b) Public Availability of Unclassified Dissent Cables.--Not later 
than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of State shall make available to the public an unclassified version of 
any such cable or memo.
    (c) Protection of Personally Identifiable Information.--The name 
and any other personally identifiable information of an author of a 
cable or memo referred to in subsection (a) shall be redacted before 
submission under that subsection or publication under subsection (b).
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