[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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