[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3409-S3410]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1919. Mr. SANDERS (for himself, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Murphy) submitted 
an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4049, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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. ___. PROHIBITION ON SUPPORT OR MILITARY PARTICIPATION 
                   AGAINST THE HOUTHIS IN YEMEN.

       (a) Prohibition Relating to Support.--None of the funds 
     authorized to be appropriated by this Act may be made 
     available to

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     provide United States support for Saudi-led or United Arab 
     Emirates-led coalition forces against the Houthis in Yemen, 
     including for any of the following:
       (1) Intelligence sharing or logistical support activities 
     for coalition airstrikes.
       (2) Maintenance and spare parts transfers to warplanes 
     engaged in anti-Houthi bombings.
       (b) Prohibition Relating to Military Participation.--None 
     of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act may be 
     made available for any uniformed or non-uniformed member of 
     the United States Armed Forces to command, coordinate, 
     participate in the movement of, or accompany the regular or 
     irregular military forces of the Saudi-led and United Arab 
     Emirates-led coalition forces in hostilities against the 
     Houthis in Yemen or in situations in which there exists an 
     imminent threat that such coalition forces become engaged in 
     such hostilities, unless and until the President has obtained 
     specific statutory authorization, in accordance with section 
     8(a) of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1547(a)).
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