[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5242]
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SA 5754. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe)
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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. 1276. LIMITATION ON TRANSFER OF F-16 AIRCRAFT.
The President may not sell or authorize a license for the
export of new F-16 aircraft or F-16 upgrade technology or
modernization kits pursuant to any authority provided by the
Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) to the
Government of Turkey, or to any agency or instrumentality of
Turkey, unless the President provides to the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate, the Committee on Foreign
Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the
congressional defense committees a certification--
(1) that such transfer is in the national interest of the
United States; and
(2) that includes a detailed description of concrete steps
taken to ensure that such F-16s are not used by Turkey for
repeated unauthorized territorial overflights of Greece.
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