[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 90 (Monday, June 8, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3878-S3879]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1842. Mr. PERDUE 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, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table, as follows:

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

     SEC. 1242. STRATEGY FOR THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE EVENT OF A 
                   COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR AGREEMENT WITH IRAN.

       (a) Strategy Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall, in 
     coordination with the Secretary of State, other members of 
     the National Security Council, and the heads of other 
     appropriate departments and agencies of the United States 
     Government, develop a strategy for the United States for the 
     Middle East in the event of a comprehensive nuclear agreement 
     with Iran.
       (b) Elements.--The strategy shall include the following:
       (1) Efforts to counter Iranian-sponsored terrorism in 
     Middle East region.
       (2) Efforts to reassure United States allies and partners 
     in Middle East.
       (3) Efforts to address the potential for a conventional or 
     nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

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       (c) Submittal to Congress.--Not later than 60 days after 
     the date of the entry of Iran into the agreement described in 
     subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit the strategy 
     developed under that subsection to--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence 
     of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on 
     Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
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