[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 29, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S753-S754]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 79. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1, to make improvements to certain defense and 
security assistance provisions and to authorize the appropriation of 
funds to Israel, to reauthorize the United States-Jordan Defense 
Cooperation Act of 2015, and to halt the wholesale slaughter of the 
Syrian people, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

 TITLE __--PROMOTION OF PEACE AND SECURITY FOR KURDISH ALLIES IN SYRIA

     SEC. __. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``Promotion of Peace and 
     Security Act''.

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     SEC. ___. AUTHORIZATION.

       (a) Authorization.--The President is hereby authorized to 
     undertake military assistance and use of armed forces, if the 
     President determines it necessary and appropriate, to defend 
     the Kurds in Syria against armed aggression from any country 
     or terrorist organization.
       (b) War Powers Resolution Requirements.--
       (1) Specific statutory authorization.--Consistent with 
     section 8(a)(1) of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 
     1547(a)(1)), Congress declares that this section is intended 
     to constitute specific statutory authorization within the 
     meaning of section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution (50 
     U.S.C. 1544(b)).
       (2) Applicability of other requirements.--Nothing in this 
     title supersedes any requirements of the War Powers 
     Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1541 et seq.).
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