[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5709-S5710]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6180. Mr. MERKLEY 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 F of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1276. CEASEFIRE PROTECTION MEASURES.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the President and all relevant Federal agencies should use 
     funds and resources at their disposal to continue to engage 
     in formal or informal diplomacy or consultations with 
     military forces aligned with and under the control of the 
     internationally recognized Government of Yemen and with Ansar 
     Allah, the Saudi- and Emirati-led coalition, any other armed 
     group so as--
       (1) to continue to maintain any ceasefire or cessation of 
     hostilities in the war in Yemen; and
       (2) to create, conduct, or continue to facilitate a 
     legitimate peace process to end the war in Yemen.
       (b) Verification Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and every 30 days thereafter for 
     one year, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the

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     Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of Defense, 
     and the head of any other relevant Federal agency, shall 
     submit to Congress a report that includes the following:
       (A) An assessment on the current status of any ceasefire or 
     cessation of hostilities among the military forces aligned 
     with and under the control of the internationally recognized 
     Government of Yemen, Ansar Allah, the Saudi- and Emirati-led 
     coalition, and any other armed group.
       (B) A list of any violations of any existing ceasefire or 
     cessation of hostilities in Yemen by--
       (i) armed forces aligned with and under the control of--

       (I) the internationally recognized Government of Yemen;
       (II) Ansar Allah; and
       (III) any other armed group included in any ceasefire; or

       (ii) airstrikes or drone strikes conducted by--

       (I) the Saudi Royal Air Force; or
       (II) the United Arab Emirates Air Force and Air Defense.

       (C) An assessment of how many fuel shipments, including how 
     many tons of fuel, have entered the port of Hodeida since 
     April 2, 2022, and whether the collection of custom duties at 
     the port of Hodeida is used to pay the salaries of public 
     sector employees.
       (D) A description of the reopening of the Sanaa 
     International Airport to commercial flights, including how 
     many flights have arrived and departed the airport since 
     April 2, 2022, and an analysis of the barriers to progress 
     and possible solutions for opening flights to and from Cairo 
     International Airport.
       (E) An assessment of road access to and from the city of 
     Taiz, including the estimated time of travel between Taiz and 
     the city of Aden and any other measurement used to determine 
     the freedom of movement to and from Taiz.
       (F) A list and assessment of any additional condition or 
     measure included after the date of the enactment of this Act 
     in any ceasefire, peace process, or negotiated peace 
     settlement in Yemen.
       (G) An assessment and description of the President's 
     diplomatic strategy and efforts to maintain any such 
     ceasefire and build on it to advance a negotiated, 
     legitimate, and permanent peace settlement to end the war in 
     Yemen.
       (H) An analysis of the barriers to progress on elements of 
     the truce and ways to incentivize progress towards 
     maintaining the truce and building a more sustainable 
     political resolution to the conflict.
       (I) A progress report on the emergency operation by the 
     United Nations to transfer the oil from the floating storage 
     and offloading vessel (FSO) Safer to a safe vessel.
       (2) Form.--Each report under paragraph (1) shall be 
     submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified 
     annex that is provided separately from the unclassified 
     version.
       (c) Briefing on Support for Multilateral Human Rights 
     Investigative Mechanism.--Not later than 60 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 
     shall provide a briefing to the appropriate committees of 
     Congress on the benefits and utility of providing direct 
     support to an independent multilateral investigative 
     mechanism to document and report past, ongoing, and future 
     violations of human rights and international humanitarian law 
     by all parties in the conflict in Yemen since 2015.
       (d) Ceasefire Maintenance Mechanisms; Prohibition of 
     Licenses Authorizing Exports of Certain Defense Services.--
     During the 2-year period beginning on the date of the most 
     recent violations listed under subsection (b)(1)(B)(ii), the 
     President may not issue any license, and shall suspend any 
     license or other approval that was issued before the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, authorizing the export to the 
     Government of Saudi Arabia or the Government of United Arab 
     Emirate of defense services related to the maintenance or 
     servicing of United States-provided aircraft belonging to 
     military units determined to have undertaken offensive 
     airstrikes inside Yemen after such date of enactment that are 
     not related directly to preventing or degrading the ability 
     of Ansar Allah forces to launch missile and unmanned aircraft 
     strikes on the territory of Saudi Arabia or the United Arab 
     Emirates.
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