[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 90 (Monday, June 8, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3883-S3884]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1862. Mr. RUBIO 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 B of title XXXI, add the following:

     SEC. 3124. PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR PROVISION 
                   OF DEFENSE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION ASSISTANCE 
                   TO RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

       (a) Prohibition.--None of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for 
     fiscal year 2016 for defense nuclear nonproliferation 
     activities, and none of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated for defense nuclear nonproliferation activities 
     for any fiscal year before fiscal year 2016 that are 
     available for obligation as of the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, may be obligated or expended to enter into a 
     contract with, or otherwise provide assistance to, the 
     Russian Federation until the President certifies to the 
     appropriate congressional committees that the Russian 
     Federation is in compliance with--
       (1) 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'');
       (2) the Treaty between the United States of America and the 
     Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and 
     Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed on April 8, 
     2010, and entered into force on February 5, 2011 (commonly 
     referred to as the ``New START Treaty'');
       (3) its obligations under the Presidential Nuclear 
     Initiatives agreed to by President George H.W. Bush and 
     President Boris Yeltsin; and
       (4) its obligations under the Comprehensive Nuclear Test 
     Ban Treaty, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 
     September 10, 1996.
       (b) Waiver.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Energy may waive the 
     prohibition under subsection (a) if the Secretary--
       (A) determines that such a waiver is in the national 
     security interests of the United States; and
       (B) not less than 15 days before the waiver takes effect, 
     submits to the appropriate congressional committees a report, 
     in classified form if necessary, providing the justification 
     for the waiver.
       (2) Nondelegation.--The Secretary may not delegate the 
     waiver authority under paragraph (1).
       (c) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     means the following:
       (1) The congressional defense committees.
       (2) The Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and 
     the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
     Representatives.

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