[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 84 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3343]
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  SA 4341. Mr. CASEY 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:

       At the end of section 1531, add the following:
       (c) Availability of Funds for Countering Movement of 
     Precursor Materials.--
       (1) In general.--Of the funds made available for the Joint 
     Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund for fiscal year 2017 
     by this Act, up to $15,000,000 may be used by the Secretary 
     of Defense to provide assistance in the form of training, 
     equipment, supplies, and services to ministries and other 
     governmental entities of any country that the Secretary of 
     Defense, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, has 
     identified as critical for countering the movement of 
     precursor materials for improvised explosive devices. Any 
     such assistance shall be provided for the purpose of 
     countering the movement of such precursor materials.
       (2) Provision through other united states agencies.--If 
     agreed upon by the Secretary of Defense and the head of 
     another department or agency of the United States, the 
     Secretary may transfer funds available under paragraph (1) to 
     the head of such department or agency for the provision by 
     such department or agency of assistance described in that 
     paragraph to ministries and other government entities of a 
     country identified under that paragraph.
       (d) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the Department of Defense should increase efforts to combat 
     the use of improvised explosive devices by the terrorist 
     group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the 
     illicit smuggling of improvised explosive device precursor 
     materials by that terrorist group.
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