[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5607]
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SA 6080. Mr. GRAHAM (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) 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 C of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1239. ENSURING UKRAINIAN SOVEREIGNTY.
(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the
``Ensuring Ukrainian Sovereignty Act''.
(b) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to ensure that
any country that recognizes the annexation by the Russian
Federation of any part of Ukraine, including any territory
taken from Ukraine beginning in 2014 and the results of any
referenda sponsored by the Russian Federation that are held
within Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk,
Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions, does not receive any
economic or military assistance from the United States.
(c) Termination of Foreign Assistance.--
(1) Restrictions.--The President shall immediately
terminate all economic and military assistance from the
United States to any country that recognizes any annexation
described in subsection (b) and is prohibited from providing
any such assistance to any such country.
(2) Report.--The President shall--
(A) submit a report to Committee on Foreign Relations of
the Senate, the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate,
the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, the Committee
on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, the
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives,
and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives that--
(i) lists all of the countries that are subject to the
restrictions described in paragraph (1); and
(ii) identifies the amount of funding affected by such
restrictions, disaggregated by country and program; and
(B) submit an update of such report to the committees
referred to in subparagraph (A) whenever a country is added
to, or removed from, the list referred to in subparagraph
(A).
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