[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 91 (Thursday, June 9, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3769]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4660. Mr. MURPHY (for himself and Mr. Paul) 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 subtitle H of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1277. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE CONFLICT IN YEMEN.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) all sides to the current conflict in Yemen should--
       (A) abide by international obligations to protect 
     civilians;
       (B) facilitate the delivery of humanitarian relief 
     throughout the country; and
       (C) respect negotiated cease-fires and work toward a 
     lasting political settlement;
       (2) United States-supported Saudi military operations in 
     Yemen should--
       (A) take all feasible precautions to reduce the risk of 
     harm to civilians and civilian objects, in compliance with 
     international humanitarian law; and
       (B) increase prioritization of targeting of designated 
     foreign terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda in the 
     Arabian Peninsula and affiliates of the Islamic State of Iraq 
     and the Levant; and
       (3) the Houthi-Saleh forces engaged in the conflict in 
     Yemen should--
       (A) cease indiscriminate shelling of areas inhabited by 
     civilians; and
       (B) allow free access by humanitarian relief organizations 
     seeking to deliver aid to civilian populations under siege.
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