[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3483]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2019. Mr. ROMNEY 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. REPORT ON IMPLICATIONS OF RUSSIA-CHINA GAS 
                   PIPELINE.

       (a) Report Required.--The Director of National Intelligence 
     shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a 
     report on the implications for the United States and the 
     allies of the United States of the gas pipeline between 
     Russia and China that was put into use starting in 2019.
       (b) Contents.--The report submitted under subsection (a) 
     shall include an assessment of the following:
       (1) The economic, national security, or energy security 
     implications for the United States of the pipeline described 
     in subsection (a).
       (2) The economic, national security, or energy security 
     implications for Europe of such pipeline.
       (3) Whether such pipeline is part of a trend of cooperation 
     between Russia and China.
       (4) The motivation for such cooperation.
       (c) Form.--The report submitted under subsection (a) shall 
     be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a 
     classified annex.
       (d) Definition of Appropriate Committees of Congress.--In 
     this section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on 
     Armed Services, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of 
     the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
     Armed Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on 
     Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
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