[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 146 (Monday, September 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5153]
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  SA 931. Mrs. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her 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 C of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. ___. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND 
                   THE LEVANT.

       It is the sense of the Congress that--
       (1) the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) poses 
     an acute threat to the people, government, and territorial 
     integrity of Iraq, including the Iraqi Sunni, Shia, and 
     Kurdish communities and religious and ethnic minorities in 
     Iraq, and to the security and stability of the Middle East 
     and beyond;
       (2) the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 
     is critical to maintaining a unified Iraq in which all 
     faiths, sects, and ethnicities are afforded equal protection 
     and full integration into the Government and society of Iraq; 
     and
       (3) the United States should, in coordination with 
     coalition partners, continue necessary support to the 
     security forces of or associated with the Government of Iraq 
     that have a national security mission in their fight against 
     the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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