[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 192 (Tuesday, November 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7645]
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  SA 4179. Mr. MENENDEZ 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 end of subtitle F of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1264. REPORT ON MAJOR CONSTRAINTS ON EFFECTIVENESS OF 
                   MILITARY FORCES OF NIGERIA IN COMBATING ISIS 
                   AND BOKO HARAM.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Director of National 
     Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate committees of 
     Congress a report that includes an analysis of the major 
     constraints on the effectiveness of the military forces of 
     the Federal Republic of Nigeria in combating ISIS and Boko 
     Haram (to the extent Boko Haram persists) in northeastern 
     Nigeria.
       (b) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Select 
     Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, and the Committee on 
     Armed Services of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Select 
     Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Armed 
     Services of the House of Representatives.
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