[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5484]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5990. Mr. LEE 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:

        Strike section 1244 and insert the following:

     SEC. 1244. STATEMENT OF POLICY ON DEFENSE OF TAIWAN.

       Consistent with the Taiwan Relations Act (Public Law 96-8; 
     22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.), it shall be the policy of the United 
     States to supply Taiwan with defensive arms and to maintain 
     the capacity to defend Taiwan, without an express obligation 
     or commitment to do so.
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