[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 88 (Monday, June 6, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3418]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4378. Mr. RUBIO 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:

       On page 1032, after line 23, add the following:
       (c) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) it should be the policy of the United States to 
     support, within the framework of the Iraq Constitution, the 
     Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraq, Iraq Security Forces, Sunni tribal 
     forces, and other local security forces, including ethnic and 
     religious minority groups such as Iraqi Christian militias, 
     in the campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the 
     Levant;
       (2) recognizing the important role of the Kurdish Peshmerga 
     in Iraq in the military campaign against the Islamic State of 
     Iraq and the Levant in Iraq, the United States should provide 
     arms, training, and appropriate equipment to the Kurdistan 
     Regional Government;
       (3) efforts should be made to ensure transparency and 
     oversight mechanisms are in place for oversight of United 
     States assistance under section 1236 of the Carl Levin and 
     Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 2015 in order to combat waste, fraud, and 
     abuse; and
       (4) securing safe areas, including the Nineveh Plain, for 
     purposes of resettling and reintegrating ethnic and religious 
     minorities, including victims of genocide, into their 
     homelands in Iraq is a critical component toward achieving a 
     safe, secure, and sovereign Iraq.
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