[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 188 (Tuesday, October 26, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7387]
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  SA 3911. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to 
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
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 subtitle G of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1283. LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS TO IMPLEMENT 
                   THE ARMS TRADE TREATY.

       (a) Limitation.--
       (1) In general.--None of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for 
     fiscal year 2022 for the Department of Defense may be 
     obligated or expended to sustain a domestic prosecution based 
     on any charge related to the Arms Trade Treaty, to make 
     assessed payments for the Treaty's Conference of States 
     Parties or to meet in any other way expenses sustained by the 
     Treaty Secretariat, to make voluntary contributions to any 
     international organization or foreign nation for any purpose 
     related to attendance at the Conference, or to implement the 
     Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution advising and 
     consenting to ratification of the Treaty and there is enacted 
     legislation implementing the Treaty.
       (2) Exceptions.--The limitation in paragraph (1) shall not 
     apply to a United States delegation attending the Treaty's 
     Conference of State Parties, subsidiary bodies, or 
     extraordinary meetings, or to the payment, to entities other 
     than the Treaty Secretariat, of an attendance fee towards the 
     cost of preparing and holding the Conference of State 
     Parties, or subsidiary body meeting as applicable.
       (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
     construed to preclude the Department of Defense from 
     assisting foreign countries in bringing their laws, 
     regulations, and practices related to export control up to 
     United States standards.
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