[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3368]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2531. Mr. MENENDEZ 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. __. SECURITY ASSISTANCE FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.

       (a) Requirement.--All defense articles, defense services, 
     security and military assistance, and related cooperation 
     provided to a country in sub-Saharan Africa shall be provided 
     as part of a comprehensive strategy for democracy and 
     institution-building in such country.
       (b) Prohibition of Assistance.--Defense articles, defense 
     services, security and military assistance, and related 
     cooperation may not be provided in any fiscal year to any 
     country in sub-Saharan Africa in which less than $2,000,000 
     in United States assistance in democracy and governance 
     programming is being administered in such fiscal year unless, 
     not less than 15 calendar days before such assistance is 
     provided, the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Defense, 
     as applicable, notifies the appropriate committees of 
     Congress of the intent to provide such assistance.
       (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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