[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 90 (Monday, June 8, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3882]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1856. Mr. MENENDEZ 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 D of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1257. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON SANCTIONING INDIVIDUALS 
                   CONNECTED TO THE DETAINMENT OF UKRAINIAN 
                   FIGHTER PILOT NADIYA SAVCHENKO.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Ukrainian fighter pilot Nadiya Savchenko was captured 
     on June 17, 2014, in a town in Ukraine north of Luhansk, by 
     armed men loyal to the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's 
     Republic.
       (2) Nadiya Savchenko was subsequently beaten, transported 
     to Voronezh, a town due north of Luhansk in the Russian 
     Federation, and held on falsified charges, including the 
     charge of illegal crossing of the border into the Russian 
     Federation even though she was brought to the Russian 
     Federation forcefully, blindfolded and handcuffed.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the detainment and continued detention of Nadiya 
     Savchenko and the falsified charges that have been brought 
     against her are serious violations of internationally 
     recognized human rights and are offenses for which sanctions 
     may be imposed under the law of the United States; and
       (2) the United States should impose sanctions with respect 
     to the individuals connected to the detainment and continued 
     detention of Nadiya Savchenko.
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