[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 106 (Monday, June 24, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4463]
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SA 842. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 764 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 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 C of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1226. REPORT ON COST OF DRONE SHOT DOWN BY IRANIANS.
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the President shall submit to Congress a report
that includes--
(1) a statement of the cost of the United States drone shot
down by the Iranians on June 20, 2019;
(2) an estimate of the amount of Iranian funds that--
(A) have been frozen under the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) or other
provisions of law imposing sanctions with respect to Iran;
and
(B) are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States;
(3) a description of all legal barriers preventing the
United States from--
(A) confiscating, from the funds described in paragraph
(2), an amount equal to the cost of the drone identified
under paragraph (1); and
(B) transferring that amount to the Department of Defense;
and
(4) a description of the statutory changes that would be
necessary to remove all barriers described in paragraph (3).
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