[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 103 (Wednesday, June 19, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4100]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 782. Mr. SANDERS 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 X, add the following:

     SEC. 1045. PROHIBITION ON OFFENSIVE COMBAT OPERATIONS AGAINST 
                   IRAN WITHOUT EXPRESS DECLARATION OF WAR OR 
                   AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE.

       No funds authorized to be appropriated for the Department 
     of Defense by this Act may be used to conduct offensive 
     combat operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran except 
     pursuant to a declaration of war made after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, or an authorization for use of 
     military force enacted after that date, that expressly 
     authorizes such combat operations.
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