[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3795-S3796]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1651. Mr. SCHATZ 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,

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and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end of subtitle G of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1283. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES 
                   RELATED TO THE SALE AND TRANSFER OF MINE 
                   RESISTANT AMBUSH PROTECTED VEHICLES MRAPS TO 
                   STRATEGIC PARTNERS.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) it is in the national security interest of the United 
     States to build relationships with strategic partners through 
     security assistance programs, including the Foreign Military 
     Sales, Excess Defense Articles, and Foreign Military 
     Financing of Direct Commercial Contracts programs;
       (2) these security assistance programs incentivize partners 
     to meet the requirements of United States law in order to 
     purchase United States military equipment, secure special 
     access privileges for the United States military, and 
     reassure allies of United States security commitments;
       (3) as the United States deepens security ties in key 
     regions, it remains vital that it strike a balance between 
     remaining an attractive security partner and establishing 
     robust oversight over all security assistance programs;
       (4) absent robust oversight, sales and transfers of 
     sensitive weapon systems to foreign countries and military 
     units with human rights violations carry the risk of harming 
     United States interests;
       (5) Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles are a 
     highly sensitive weapon system that have the potential to be 
     used for repressive purposes, including to suppress 
     legitimate domestic civil unrest and peaceful protests; and
       (6) the Defense Security Cooperation Agency and the 
     Department of State should submit the sale and transfer of 
     MRAP vehicles to foreign countries to the Enhanced End-Use 
     Monitoring process in order to ensure an added layer of 
     compliance and accountability with United States assistance 
     and to deter the misuse of this weapon system.
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