[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5250]
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SA 5768. Mr. RISCH 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 A of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1214. LIMITATION ON FUNDING FOR PEACEKEEPING TRAINING OF
FOREIGN MILITARY FORCES.
Section 552 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2348a) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(e) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available to carry out this chapter, including funding for
the Global Peace Operations Initiative of the Department of
State, may be used to train or support foreign military
forces in peacekeeping training exercises administered by the
Government of the People's Republic of China or by the
People's Liberation Army unless, by not later than the first
day of the fiscal year in which such training or support is
scheduled to occur, the Secretary of State certifies to the
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives
that such training or support is important to the national
security interests of the United States.''.
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