[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3414-S3415]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 337. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 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 I, add the following:

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     SEC. 155. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR PROCUREMENT, FLIGHT 
                   TESTING, OR DEPLOYMENT OF SHORTER- OR 
                   INTERMEDIATE-RANGE GROUND LAUNCHED BALLISTIC OR 
                   CRUISE MISSILE SYSTEM.

       (a) In General.--None of the amounts authorized to be 
     appropriated by this Act for the Department of Defense for 
     fiscal year 2020 may be made available for the procurement, 
     flight testing, or deployment of any United States shorter- 
     or intermediate-range ground launched ballistic or cruise 
     missile system with a range between 500 and 5,500 kilometers 
     until the Secretary of Defense, in concurrence with the 
     Secretary of State and the Director of National Intelligence, 
     submits a report and offers a briefing to the appropriate 
     committees of Congress that--
       (1) includes a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) from a 
     NATO or Indo-Pacific ally that commits it to host deployment 
     of any such missile on its own territory, and in the case of 
     deployment on the European continent, has the concurrence of 
     the North Atlantic Council;
       (2) provides a detailed diplomatic proposal for negotiating 
     an agreement to obtain the strategic stability benefits of 
     the INF Treaty;
       (3) assesses the implications, in terms of the military 
     threat to the United States and its allies in Europe and the 
     Indo-Pacific, of a Russian Federation deployment of 
     intermediate-range cruise and ballistic missiles without 
     restriction;
       (4) identifies what types of technologies and programs the 
     United States would need to pursue to offset the additional 
     Russian capabilities, and at what cost;
       (5) identifies what mission requirements with respect to 
     the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China 
     will be met by INF-type systems;
       (6) identifies the degree to which INF-compliant 
     capabilities, such as sea and air-launched cruise missiles, 
     can meet those same mission requirements; and
       (7) identifies the ramifications of a collapse of the INF 
     Treaty on the ability to generate consensus among States 
     Parties to the NPT Treaty ahead of the 2020 NPT Review 
     Conference, and assesses the degree to which the Russian 
     Federation will use the United States unilateral withdrawal 
     to sow discord within the NATO alliance.
       (b) Form of Report.--The report required under subsection 
     (a) shall be unclassified with a classified annex.
       (c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
     construed to authorize the use of the amounts authorized to 
     be appropriated under this Act for the procurement, testing, 
     or deployment of INF-type systems in the United States or its 
     territories.
       (d) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term 
     ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means the 
     congressional defense committees, the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations of the Senate, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
     of the House of Representatives.
       (2) INF treaty.--The term ``INF Treaty'' means the Treaty 
     between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet 
     Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-
     Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, together with the 
     Memorandum of Understanding and Two Protocols, signed at 
     Washington December 8, 1987, and entered into force June 1, 
     1988.
       (3) NPT treaty.--The term ``NPT Treaty'' means the Treaty 
     on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, signed at 
     Washington July 1, 1968
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