[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 12, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5233]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 984. Ms. WARREN (for herself and Mr. Lee) 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:

       In section 1635, strike subsection (c) and insert the 
     following:
       (c) Report on Military and Security Ramifications of 
     Russia's Ground-launched Cruise Missile.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense, with the 
     concurrence of the Secretary of State, shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a report including the 
     following elements:
       (A) A description of the status of the Russian Federation's 
     new ground-launched cruise missile (SSC-8), its capabilities, 
     and the threat it poses to the allies and assets of the 
     United States in Europe and Asia.
       (B) An assessment of whether the United States faces 
     significant military disadvantages with the introduction of 
     the SSC-8 to the European continent.
       (C) An assessment of capability gaps that a new United 
     States ground-launched intermediate-range missile with a 
     range between 500 and 5,500 kilometers would address in 
     Europe and Asia and whether such a missile is the preferred 
     military response to Russian Federation violations of the INF 
     Treaty.
       (D) The timeline for fielding such a ground-launched 
     intermediate-range missile, including time for research, 
     development, and deployment of the system, and the total cost 
     for development and deployment of the system.
       (E) An assessment of the willingness of countries in Europe 
     or the Asia-Pacific region to complete the legal requirements 
     to host a ground-launched intermediate-range missile with a 
     range of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers for counterforce or 
     countervailing strike missions against the Russian Federation 
     and the People's Republic of China.
       (F) An assessment of the North Atlantic Council's 
     willingness to endorse development of a ground-launched 
     intermediate-range missile as part of the North Atlantic 
     Treaty Organization's collective response to the failure of 
     the Russian Federation to comply with the INF Treaty.
       (G) A determination of whether the United States 
     developing, producing, or flight-testing a ground-launched 
     intermediate-range missile would be compliant with the INF 
     Treaty.
       (2) Form.--The report required under paragraph (1) shall be 
     submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified 
     annex.
       (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--None of the funds 
     authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made 
     available for fiscal year 2018 for a research and development 
     program for a dual-capable road-mobile ground-launched 
     missile system with a maximum range of 5,500 kilometers may 
     be obligated or expended until the reports required by 
     subsections (b) and (c) are received by the congressional 
     defense committees.
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