[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3827]
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SA 1758. Mr. KIRK 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:
Strike section 1649 and insert the following:
SEC. 1649. LIMITATION ON PROVIDING CERTAIN MISSILE DEFENSE
TECHNOLOGY TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
(a) Extension and Expansion of Limitation on Providing
Certain Sensitive Missile Defense Information.--Section
1246(c)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113-66; 127 Stat. 923), as
amended by section 1243(2)(A) of the Carl Levin and Howard P.
``Buck'' McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2015 (Public Law 113-291; 128 Stat. 3564), is further
amended--
(1) by striking ``information.--No funds'' and inserting
the following: ``information.--
``(A) In general.--No funds'';
(2) by striking ``for fiscal year 2014 or 2015'' and all
that follows through the period at the end and inserting
``for any fiscal year for the Department of Defense may be
used to provide the Russian Federation with sensitive missile
defense information or information relating to velocity at
burnout of, or telemetry information on, United States
missile interceptors or targets.''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
``(B) Waiver.--The Secretary of Defense may waive the
limitation under subparagraph (A) if the Secretary certifies
to the congressional defense committees that the Russia
Federation--
``(i) is complying with the Treaty between the United
States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-
Range Missiles, signed at Washington December 8, 1987, and
entered into force June 1, 1988 (commonly referred to as the
`Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty' or `INF Treaty');
``(ii) has verifiably pulled its regular and irregular
military forces out of Ukrainian territory, including Crimea;
and
``(iii) has terminated its contract to sell the S-300 air
defense system to the Islamic Republic of Iran.''.
(b) Limitation on Integration of Missile Defense Systems.--
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act or any other Act may be used to
integrate in any way United States missile defense systems,
including those of NATO, with missile defense systems of the
Russian Federation.
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