[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 88 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3718]
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SA 1580. Mrs. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
On page 684, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following:
(2) in subsection (c)--
(A) in paragraph (2)--
(i) by striking ``unless the Secretary'' and inserting the
following: ``unless--
``(A) the Secretary'';
(ii) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``;
and''; and
(iii) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
``(B) the Secretary certifies to the appropriate
congressional committees that the Government of the Russian
Federation is no longer--
``(i) violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine; or
``(ii) supporting entities that have illegally seized
property of the Government of Ukraine or territory of
Ukraine.''; and
(B) by adding at the end the following:
``(3) Appropriate congressional committees defined.--In
this subsection, the term `appropriate congressional
committees' means--
``(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
``(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.''; and
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