[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5659]
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SA 6100. Mr. THUNE 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 D of title X, add the following:
SEC. 1035. NOTIFICATION OF ABANDONED UNITED STATES MILITARY
EQUIPMENT USED IN TERRORIST ATTACKS.
(a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after any element
of the intelligence community (as defined in section 3 of the
National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)) determines
that United States military equipment abandoned or otherwise
left unsecured in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria has been used
in a terrorist attack against the United States, allies or
partners of the United States, or local populations, the
Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a written notification of
such determination that includes any known details relating
to--
(1) the equipment used in the attack;
(2) the date on which, and the location from which, the
equipment left United States custody;
(3) attribution for the orchestrators of the attack; and
(4) the total number of deaths and casualties caused by the
attack.
(b) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee
on Intelligence, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, and the Subcommittee on Defense of
the Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives.
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