[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 19 (Wednesday, January 30, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S773]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 88. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 65 proposed by Mr. McConnell (for himself, Mr. Graham, Mr. 
Blunt, Mr. Burr, Mr. Romney, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Rubio, Mr. 
Sasse, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Tillis, 
Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Young, and Mr. 
Boozman) 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 end, add the following:

     SEC. ___. 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.

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