[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 20 (Thursday, January 31, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S814]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 96. Mr. MENENDEZ proposed an amendment 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; as follows:

       At the end of the amendment, add the following:
       (c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
     construed as a declaration of war or an authorization of the 
     use of military force.
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