[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5727-S5728]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6200. Mr. MANCHIN (for himself, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. 
Duckworth, and Mr. Portman) 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 A of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1214. STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF 
                   UKRAINE.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has generated 
     massive levels of human and economic suffering in the 
     sovereign nation of Ukraine.
       (2) According to the United Nations Human Rights Council, 
     Putin's war in Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, has 
     directly caused--
       (A) 14,844 civilian casualties, including 5,996 civilians 
     killed;
       (B) the internal displacement of approximately 7,000,000 
     people in Ukraine; and
       (C) an additional 7,405,590 Ukrainian refugees to flee from 
     Ukraine to other European countries.
       (3) Ukrainian civilians are still being killed daily and 
     the true number of Ukrainian civilian casualties might never 
     be known.
       (4) According to the World Bank, Putin's war in Ukraine--
       (A) caused more than $97,000,000,000 worth of damage to 
     buildings and infrastructure between February 24, 2022 and 
     June 1, 2022;
       (B) is expected to cause Ukraine's economy to shrink by 
     45.1 percent during 2022; and

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       (C) will require an estimated $349,000,000,000 for recovery 
     and reconstruction needs across social, productive, and 
     infrastructure sectors in Ukraine.
       (b) Statement of Support.--Congress--
       (1) recognizes that--
       (A) the United States--
       (i) has long sought to alleviate the suffering of civilians 
     and nations hurt by war; and
       (ii) remains committed to ensuring the long-term peace, 
     prosperity, and territorial integrity of Ukraine;
       (B) aid packages, such as the Marshall Plan--
       (i) helped Western Europe recover from the economic damage 
     and human suffering generated by World War II; and
       (ii) contributed to the stability of global good order that 
     has persisted for decades;
       (C) an effective Ukrainian reconstruction effort can only 
     be accomplished by working in concert with other nations and 
     international bodies; and
       (2) encourages the United States Government to lead an 
     international group of allies that will equitably contribute 
     to provide the Government of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people 
     with a reconstruction assistance package for the purpose of 
     increasing ties between nations that are seeking a stable 
     international order to counter malign and rogue actors.
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