[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5242]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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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