[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 106 (Monday, June 24, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4469]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 873. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Van Hollen, and Mr. 
Kaine) 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 G of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1290. LIMITATION ON SECURITY ASSISTANCE TO CAMEROON.

       (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), no 
     Federal funds may be obligated or expended to provide any 
     security assistance or to engage in any security cooperation 
     with the military and security forces of Cameroon until the 
     date on which the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with 
     the Secretary of State, certifies to the appropriate 
     committees of Congress that such military and security 
     forces--
       (1) have demonstrated significant progress in abiding by 
     international human rights standards and preventing abuses in 
     the Anglophone conflict; and
       (2) are not using any United States assistance in carrying 
     out such abuses.
       (b) Exception.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), Federal 
     funds may be obligated or expended to conduct or support 
     programs providing training and equipment to national 
     security forces of Cameroon for the purposes of 
     counterterrorism operations in the fight against Boko Haram.
       (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on 
     Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
     Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives.
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