[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3704]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2717. 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 E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 12__. EQUALITY OF TREATMENT IN ARMS SALES FOR TAIWAN.

       (a) In General.--The President shall ensure that the United 
     States Government treats any proposed arms sale for Taiwan 
     with the same timeline, process, and procedure, including 
     formal notification to Congress under the Arms Export Control 
     Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.), accorded to a proposed arms 
     transfer for any other country.
       (b) OIG Reporting.--For each of the five years beginning on 
     the day after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
     Inspectors General of the Department of State and the 
     Department of Defense shall--
       (1) review the compliance of the Department of State and 
     the Department of Defense, respectively, with this section; 
     and
       (2) submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a 
     report on such compliance.
       (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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