[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 93 (Wednesday, June 6, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3251]
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SA 2342. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself, Mr. Paul, and Mr. Markey)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282
submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) and intended to be
proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2019 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 G of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1271. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON CIVILIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION
AGREEMENT WITH SAUDI ARABIA.
It is the sense of Congress that any United States-Saudi
Arabia civilian nuclear cooperation agreement under section
123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153),
commonly known as a ``123 Agreement'', concluded in the
future, must prohibit the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from
enriching uranium or separating plutonium on its own
territory, in keeping with the strongest possible
nonproliferation ``gold standard''.
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