[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 144 (Thursday, September 7, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5063]
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SA 811. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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 F of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1273. REPORT ON EFFECTS ON DIPLOMATIC, ECONOMIC, AND
NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS OF THE UNITED
STATES OF WITHDRAWAL FROM THE PARIS ACCORDS.
(a) Report Required.--Not later than one year after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State
shall, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, submit
to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the
effects on United States diplomatic, economic, and national
security interests if the United States withdraws from the
Paris Accords.
(b) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified
annex.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on
Armed Services of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on
Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
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