[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5345]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5880. Mr. MARKEY 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 G of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1077. DISCLOSURE TO CONGRESS OF PRESIDENTIAL EMERGENCY 
                   ACTION DOCUMENTS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the 
     conclusion of the process for approval, adoption, or revision 
     of any presidential emergency action document, the President 
     shall submit that document to the appropriate congressional 
     committees.
       (b) Documents in Existence Before Date of Enactment.--Not 
     later than 15 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, the President shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees all presidential emergency action 
     documents in existence before such date of enactment.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'', with respect to a 
     presidential emergency action document submitted under 
     subsection (a) or (b), means--
       (A) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
     Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Select 
     Committee on Intelligence of the Senate;
       (B) the Committee on Oversight and Reform, the Committee on 
     the Judiciary, and the Permanent Select Committee on 
     Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and
       (C) any other committee of the Senate or the House of 
     Representatives with jurisdiction over the subject matter 
     addressed in the presidential emergency action document.
       (2) Presidential emergency action document.--The term 
     ``presidential emergency action document'' refers to--
       (A) each of the approximately 56 documents described as 
     presidential emergency action documents in the budget 
     justification materials for the Office of Legal Counsel of 
     the Department of Justice submitted to Congress in support of 
     the budget of the President for fiscal year 2018; and
       (B) any other pre-coordinated legal document in existence 
     before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
     that--
       (i) is designated as a presidential emergency action 
     document; or
       (ii) is designed to implement a presidential decision or 
     transmit a presidential request when an emergency disrupts 
     normal governmental or legislative processes.
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