[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 192 (Tuesday, November 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7655]
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  SA 4190. Mr. THUNE 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 G of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1283. NOTIFICATION OF ABANDONED UNITED STATES MILITARY 
                   EQUIPMENT USED IN TERRORIST ATTACKS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after any element 
     of the intelligence community (as defined in section 3 of the 
     National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003) determines 
     that United States military equipment abandoned or otherwise 
     left unsecured in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria has been used 
     in a terrorist attack against the United States, allies or 
     partners of the United States, or local populations, the 
     Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the 
     appropriate committees of Congress a written notification of 
     such determination.
       (b) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee 
     on Intelligence, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
     Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select 
     Committee on Intelligence, and the Subcommittee on Defense of 
     the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives.
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