[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 198 (Monday, November 15, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S8155]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4631. Mr. ROMNEY (for himself and Mrs. Shaheen) 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 B of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1216. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ALLIES AND PARTNERS ASSISTING 
                   EVACUATION FROM AFGHANISTAN.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) following the Afghan Taliban takeover of the Islamic 
     Republic of Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Bahrain, 
     Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, 
     Kosovo, Kuwait, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Mexico, 
     Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, 
     Sudan, Uganda, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United 
     Kingdom, and the Self-Declared Independent Republic of 
     Somaliland responded to the United States' request for 
     assistance in the effort to evacuate and support thousands of 
     United States citizens, lawful permanent residents of the 
     United States, vulnerable Afghans, and their families; and
       (2) the United States values the vital contributions of 
     these partners and allies to the evacuation effort and is 
     grateful for their support of this critical humanitarian 
     mission.
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