[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 83 (Wednesday, May 25, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3200]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4161. Mr. RUBIO (for himself and Mr. Cruz) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2017 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:

       Strike section 1204 and insert the following:

     SEC. 1204. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR TRAVEL TO CUBA OR 
                   TO INVITE, ASSIST, OR OTHERWISE ASSURE THE 
                   PARTICIPATION OF CUBA IN CERTAIN JOINT OR 
                   MULTILATERAL EXERCISES.

       (a) Prohibition.--No amounts authorized to be appropriated 
     by this Act, or by any Act enacted before the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, may be used for a purpose specified in 
     subsection (b) until the Secretary of Defense, in 
     coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, 
     submits to Congress written assurances that--
       (1) the Cuban military has ceased committing human rights 
     abuses against civil rights activists and other citizens of 
     Cuba;
       (2) the Cuban military has ceased providing military 
     intelligence, weapons training, strategic planning, and 
     security logistics to the military and security forces of 
     Venezuela;
       (3) the Cuban military and other security forces in Cuba 
     have ceased all persecution, intimidation, arrest, 
     imprisonment, and assassination of dissidents and members of 
     faith based organizations;
       (4) the Government of Cuba no longer demands that the 
     United States relinquish control of Guantanamo Bay, in 
     violation of an international treaty; and
       (5) the officials of the Cuban military that were indicted 
     in the murder of United States citizens during the shootdown 
     of planes operated by the Brothers to the Rescue humanitarian 
     organization in 1996 are brought to justice.
       (b) Purposes.--The purposes specified in this subsection 
     are as follows:
       (1) To station personnel or authorize temporary duty for 
     personnel at the United States embassy in Cuba.
       (2) To invite, assist, or otherwise assure the 
     participation of the Government of Cuba in any joint or 
     multilateral exercise or related security conference between 
     the United States and Cuba.
       (c) Exception.--The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not 
     apply to any travel or joint or multilateral exercise or 
     operation related to humanitarian assistance or disaster 
     response.
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