[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2940 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2940

 To require a comprehensive report that contains a strategy for United 
                     States involvement in Ukraine.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 27 (legislative day, September 22), 2023

     Mr. Lee (for himself, Mr. Braun, Mr. Vance, and Mr. Marshall) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                     Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require a comprehensive report that contains a strategy for United 
                     States involvement in Ukraine.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Define the Mission Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the President, in coordination with the 
Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State, shall develop and 
submit to Congress a comprehensive report that contains a strategy for 
United States involvement in Ukraine.
    (b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall--
            (1) define the United States national interests at stake 
        with respect to the conflict between the Russian Federation and 
        Ukraine;
            (2) identify specific objectives the President believes 
        must be achieved in Ukraine in order to protect the United 
        States national interests defined in paragraph (1), and for 
        each objective--
                    (A) an estimate of the amount of time required to 
                achieve the objective, with an explanation;
                    (B) benchmarks to be used by the President to 
                determine whether an objective has been met, is in the 
                progress of being met, or cannot be met in the time 
                estimated to be required in subparagraph (A); and
                    (C) estimates of the amount of resources, including 
                United States personnel, materiel, and funding, 
                required to achieve the objective;
            (3) list the expected contribution for security assistance 
        made by European member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty 
        Organization within the next fiscal year; and
            (4) provide an assessment of the impact of the Russian 
        Federation's dominance of the natural gas market in Europe on 
        the ability to resolve the ongoing conflict with Ukraine.
    (c) Requirements for Strategy.--The strategy included in the report 
required under subsection (a)--
            (1) shall be designed to achieve a cease-fire in which the 
        Russian Federation and Ukraine agree to abide by the terms and 
        conditions of such cease-fire; and
            (2) may not be contingent on United States involvement of 
        funding of Ukrainian reconstruction.
    (d) Form.--The report required by subsection (a)--
            (1) shall be submitted in an unclassified form; and
            (2) shall include a classified annex if necessary to 
        provide the most holistic picture of information to Congress as 
        required under this section.
    (e) Congress Defined.--In this section, the term ``Congress'' 
means--
            (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Foreign Relations of the Senate;
            (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and
            (3) any Member of Congress upon request.
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